#orchestra

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find

I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#could #day #go #good #half

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#me #orchestra #piano

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#build #collaboration #hours #i #many

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#damn #finish #give #goes #golden

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#completely #depending #different #down #end

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. ↗

— George Szell

#choreography #conductors #give #must #orchestra

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#direct #eastman #ensemble #faculty #formed

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#full #orchestra #stars

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#enough #good #never #orchestra #other