#orchestra

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#germany #i #munich #orchestras #other

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#become #glut #market #orchestras #symphonic

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change. ↗

— David Amram

#change #conducting #feeling #music #orchestra

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