#orchestra

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#orchestration #platitudes

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#dear #desperate #fiddling #his #life

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ↗

— Julie Harris

#beautiful #comes #communicate #each #expressing

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#germany #i #munich #orchestras #other

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#conductor #himself #impose #much #orchestra

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#concert #concert pianist #did #earn #fairly

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change. ↗

— David Amram

#change #conducting #feeling #music #orchestra

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#around #carnegie #carnegie hall #city #consider

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#one thing #orchestra #problem #thing #very

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#gets #orchestra #own #record #stuff