#symphony

Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you've never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and listened to Beethoven's Ninth from start to finish, you know nothing. For music is a transcendental exploration of human emotion and experience, the very fabric of life in its purest form. And the Ninth our greatest musical achievement. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#classical-music #joy #life #music #symphony

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. ↗

— Amar Bose

#angles #arriving #audience #back #boston

When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#harmony #heart #inspirational #instument #life

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

— Colin Wilson

#instruments #parts #play #stage #stage play

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. ↗

— David Amram

#i #jazz #last #learned #like

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#ear #ever #fifth #into #man

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

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#analogous #bit #collaborative #conductor #director

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth! ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

#am #another #been #donald #expert

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear