(73 quotes found)
“We think it is a very nice way to further develop our relationship with their orchestra and their city.”
Steven Byess
“Acceptance into the All State band, chorus or orchestra is the only criteria for this honor.”
Wade Presley
“It's a sad day when the Radio City Christmas show doesn't go on with its live orchestra. People don't pay up to $250 to hear a tape recorder.”
David Lennon
“The meetings were just ironing out the business end of what everyone in the orchestra thinks is a great idea.”
David Moore
“When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.”
Teddy Wilson
“It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.”
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
“And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.”
“I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?”
Dimitri Mitropoulos
“The orchestra matured and so many great things happened at a speed that outpaced the internal infrastructure in the organization. They're having some growing pains, and it's unfortunate when people get caught up in it.”
Tim Lynch
“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
