“The discount offers are for the best available seats, and are often orchestra seats.”
Gretchen Shugart
“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
“The way it's best described is DHS is the conductor of an orchestra. All of these partners ... are the various musicians playing beautiful music together creating a symphony of preparedness. We've made great progress.”
George Foresman
“It seats 1,100 and the stage itself is almost big enough by itself to fit the whole orchestra on. We are very excited about it. It has multi-media capabilities with screens on either side of the stage.”
CEO M. Wade Kelley
“The appointment of this young woman will mean the rejuvenation of the Orchestra in the best way. The fact that she is a young woman playing a very un-woman-like instrument is really extraordinary, and it is almost a miracle that she is both so young and so accomplished.”
Christoph Eschenbach
“I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.”
Leonard Bernstein
“Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.”
George Szell