Orchestra Quotes - Page 12

• With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Play, Halls, Particular

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• Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Years, Organization, Symphony

  Leonard Slatkin (2017). “Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry”, p.200, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Team, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Mean, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Years, Games, Germany

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. July 2004.

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• The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

  Walt Whitman

  Ardor, Wrenches, Knows

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.38, NYU Press

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• The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Queens, Light

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• Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Book, Play

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• As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."

  Wynton Marsalis

  School, Men, Directors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

  Billy Porter

  Careers, Able, Turns

  Source: collider.com

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• I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

  Howard Shore

  Epic, Symphony, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Powerful, Moving

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• I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

  Edwin Land

  Play, Mind, Violin

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• Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!

  Billy Taylor

  Names, Careers, Symphony

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• At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

  Thomas Beecham

  Play, Rehearsal, Concerts

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• I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

  James Levine

  Drama, Thinking, Voice

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• I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

  Bryan Ferry

  Writing, Done, Shows

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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• Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around ... depending on what the music demands at the moment and who feels most moved by the spirit to express the music.

  Phillip C. Schlechty

  Educational, Band, Demand

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• That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

  Anne Rice

  Lonely, Training, Groups

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• If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

  Asger Jorn

  Mind, Nerves, Pieces

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

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• There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

  John Philip Sousa

  Wind, Balance, Reason

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• New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  New York, Real, Home

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• There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Musical, Tools, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.

  James Elkins

  Music, Fire, Rainbow

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• I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

  Robert Schumann

  Enemy, Elements, Masters

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.30, Ravenio Books

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