(73 quotes found)
“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
“It's a big orchestra, and it's all set up and timed. It goes off really smoothly to the public eye.”
Kerri Hanley
“I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music; of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works; of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.”
Sergei Prokofiev
“We want to make the orchestra more accessible to people who have never been to see a live concert to come and experience one of the best orchestras in North America.”
Chris Deacon
“[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
“To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated,”
Barbara Walters
“It never really sounds the same. It's sort of like a good symphony orchestra playing a Mozart symphony. You can play it and sit on your ass and nothing happens, or you can play it and make it feel fresh. And that's what this band does.”
Lou Blue Marini
“Orchestras are having trouble across the country. Lots of orchestras have deficits, but the larger ones have a better cash flow and are not threatened. All orchestras have very large fixed costs, but the smaller ones have the challenges of fundraising and meeting those costs.”
Michael M. Kaiser
“Being a cover conductor is really like being an assistant conductor because I'm there as the orchestra rehearses with the (full-time) conductor. I'm there following along (on the score) and watching. It's just incredible to be around one of the best orchestras in the world.”
Miriam Burns
“I was so scared. Such a big orchestra”
Miriam Makeba
