What would you say?

你们会怎么说
Is it all just a straight-line ascent to present day in terms of volume?

演奏规模是否仅仅是直线上升直至今日呢
When's the biggest orchestra around?

什么时候的交响乐团演出规模最大
We talked about that.

我们之前谈到过
Marcus.

马库斯
Okay. Romantic. Can you refine it any further than that?

浪漫主义你能否更深入地阐明一下呢
Late Romantic, Mahler, Strauss, that kind of thing.

浪漫主义晚期马勒施特劳斯等作曲家
Mahler wrote a "Symphony of a Thousand," he called it.

马勒谱写了他所谓的千人交响曲
He had almost a thousand performers in it.

这部作品几乎有一千位演奏家来演奏
So it's late nineteenth,

因此是十九世纪晚期
early twentieth century,

到二十世纪初期
and then it sort of,in an odd way,declines thereafter.

但此后演奏规模异乎寻常地缩减了