#orchestra

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.

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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#any #anywhere #because #benefit #concert

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? ↗

— Robert Fripp

#does #genius #many #music #musician

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

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. ↗

— James Levine

#comes #conductor #deciding #delusion #factor

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest. ↗

— James Levine

#era #grew #i #like #orchestra

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice. ↗

— James Levine

#i #i think #involve #orchestra #strengths

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge. ↗

— James Levine

#collective #communication #day #emerge #every

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it. ↗

— James Levine

#function #i #involved #just #look

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. ↗

— James Levine

#gestures #orchestra #relationship #will