“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
“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 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
“Hugh Wolff's return might be a nice reminder for some orchestras, which may soon be looking for music directors, that we have some good home-grown talent on this side of the Atlantic,”
Tim Page
“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
“We do a lot with a little. We also have composed modern classical music for orchestras, so that helps us understand how to voice and temper our uses of instruments.”
Jonah Rapino
“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
