“The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will go well.”
Giuseppe Sinopoli
“Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.”
George Bernard Shaw
“European musicians didn't learn popular music, whereas in America we did, ... So you played in bands, you played in orchestras, you played everything. The high-art/low-art idea, that was a very European idea and not much appreciated in America. People like Cole Porter and Gershwin were considered very important composers.”
Philip Glass
“I really enjoy the youth orchestra because we get to play concert repertoire music with strings and things like that. That's really fun.”
Zachary Wells
“The Berlin Philharmonic has a music director, and the Vienna Philharmonic doesn't. They're two of the best orchestras in the world.”
Mark Volpe
“The program equips small-budget orchestras with everything they need to gain the confidence and skills to present the music of our time.”
Henry Fogel
“I have hundreds of hours of this music on tape performed by orchestras at the college that, as I said, have never seen the light of any other day.”
Bill Dixon
