#orchestras

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#composers #instruments #love #musical #orchestras

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#films #freedom #get #i #i think

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#easier #idea #jazz #jazz musicians #kind

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

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

#bug #concert #conducting #did #done

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

#composers #find #i #i think #living

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality. ↗

— Lara St. John

#down #ergo #go #money #orchestras

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general. ↗

— Lara St. John

#canada #general #government #many #massively

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#clarity #emphasis #layers #orchestras #precision