#orchestra

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#front #go #i #i can #lot

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#change #character #different #every #mind

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. ↗

— Brian May

#any #except #first #never #nine

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you. ↗

— Michael Nyman

#collaborate #duration #else #film #free

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#been #boring #else #even #gets

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation. ↗

— James Levine

#bringing #crises #generation #gripped #kinds

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable. ↗

— Robert Ripley

#gosh #head #his #i #just

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#clear #different #dough #first #normal

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#been #group #hasn #i #large