#orchestra

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

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The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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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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Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. ↗

— Herbert Read

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In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

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