Quotes About Orchestras

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.

Hank was happy to cash the checks as the palm court orchestras played his songs, but on a far deeper level he was suspicious of the trend, seeing it as a dilution of his music. "These pop bands," he told an interviewer in Charleston, South Carolina, "will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way.

Life wasn't a shadow. It was a beautiful, warm, many-voiced reality, full of omnibuses and orchestras and the smell of earth after rain.

El tango se impone como la música argentina por excelencia. Ya no pertenece al tugurio ni a los salones exclusivos. Es de todos. Se escucha en los cafés y en los cinematógrafos y se baila en los clubes al compás de las orquestas típicas. A partir de la grabación de 'Mi noche triste' (1917), de Castriota y Contursi, en la voz de Carlos Gardel, se produce un punto de inflexión en la historia de la música popular rioplatense.