#symphony

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#instruments #parts #play #stage #stage play

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ↗

— Julie Harris

#beautiful #comes #communicate #each #expressing

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#everything #like #must #symphony #world

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#first #mine #new #piece #play

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

#chair #feels #first #great #i

A symphony is no joke. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#symphony

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#compose #easier #form #just #manual

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#artists #come #commission #having #hundreds

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#any #challenge #day #different #every

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony. ↗

— Vincent Kartheiser

#art #because #been #before #collaboration