20 Quotes on Orchestras

• 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.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

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

  Author: David Tredici

• 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.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

  Author: David Stiers

• You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

  Author: David Stiers

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

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• 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.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

  Author: James Levine

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

  Author: Lara John

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

  Author: Lara John

• While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.

  Author: Skitch Henderson

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

  Author: Skitch Henderson

• I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

  Author: Skitch Henderson

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

  Author: Skitch Henderson

• Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

  Author: Keith Emerson

• 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.

  Author: Danny Elfman

• When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

  Author: Placido Domingo

• And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

  Author: Dietrich Dieskau

• It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.

  Author: Dietrich Dieskau

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