#orchestra

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

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

— James Levine

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

— James Levine

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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

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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

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

— James Levine

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. ↗

— George Szell

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I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

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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

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

— Gerry Mulligan

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