Chamber Music Quotes

• Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Friendship, Conversation, Chamber

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• In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

  Gustav Mahler

  Space, Audience, Meant To Be

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• Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

  Neville Marriner

  Symphony, Piano, Opera

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• I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

  Amos Oz

  Sea, Political, Pieces

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Play, My Best Friend, Way

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• The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.

  Wu Han

  Art, Skills, Understanding

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.

  Anne Akiko Meyers

  Strong, Four, Violin

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• Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist.

  David Finckel

  Would Be, Pianist, Ifs

  "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

  David Finckel

  Thinking, Today, Music Is

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• With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship.

  Nico Muhly

  Couple, People, Different

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Imagination, Lows

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

  S. J. Perelman

  Music, Symphony, Quartets

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• I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.

  Wu Han

  Play, Musician, Horizon

  "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• [Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Skills

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• I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Play, Piano, Earth

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• That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Heart, Optimism

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• I never listen to music when I'm writing.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Choral Music, Listening To Music

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• I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

  Tod Machover

  Growing Up, Opera, Solo

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

  Tod Machover

  School, Thinking, Piano

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Writing, Rocks, Old And New

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• I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

  Colm Toibin

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.

  Elliott Sharp

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Two

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• Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.

  George Steiner

  Wall, Book, Winter

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• What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)

  Michele Norris

  Ipods, Rocks, Hip Hop

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