#orchestra

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

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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

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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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

#cage #conducting #does #enter #how

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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