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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
That's really the Holy Grail of conducting: how to change the sound of an orchestra just with our hands alone.
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
It's a great privilege and a highlight for choir and orchestra members to perform for audiences in live concerts.
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.
I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.
Yeah, I would go to New England Conservatory a lot. My orchestra teacher ran a program for minority students there.
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.
I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.
I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling.
I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.
I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.
The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.
I don't want the World Dream Orchestra to be like a dessert whose taste is instantly forgotten as soon as you leave the restaurant.
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.