“The orchestra plays the first movement as usual, but there are two sportscasters narrating it as if it were a baseball game.”
Gregory Pritchard
“We're playing Mozart's 35th symphony because of the historical significance. It was the first piece the orchestra played when it started in 1982.”
“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
“I don't think many people noticed it. You couldn't hear it because the orchestra was also playing.”
Wayne Brown
“[In the 1950s, he began conducting symphony orchestras across the country, in Canada and in Europe. He first conducted] pops ... one of the great train wrecks of my life.”
Carnegie Hall
“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
“At our first meeting I remember when someone said, 'It would be great if the Lahti Orchestra would do recordings that would get international reviews,' and everyone started to laugh.”
Osmo Vanska
