(73 quotes found)
“It's different. When you perform with an orchestra it's different than performing with a piano soloist. They really have to be in sync with the conductor.”
Marc Tourre
“When you have an orchestra, you don't want to just jump ship and leave. This has been a wonderful venue for me.”
Paul Nadler
“So I was really composing for full orchestra and of course I didn't know enough chords or harmonies yet but I came up with some interesting stuff.”
John Fahey
“[The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is the proud of offspring of the New Orleans Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1991, leaving its musicians unemployed and stunned.] They didn't tell us, ... We found out because we got letters from our health insurance company saying our policies had been canceled.”
John Fairlie
“John sets it for Gerry [Gerald Finley, the baritone singing Oppenheimer] and full orchestra as a personal chaconne. Of course, you know that Robert Oppenheimer would be somebody who would have gone to an Alfred Deller concert or would have Alfred Deller records,”
Peter Sellars
“Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.”
John Goodman
“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
“We're the orchestra and he's the conductor.”
Josh Wright
“The concert hall is the instrument of the orchestra. We're a producing institution. We build what we make.”
Joseph McKenna
