Quotes About Orchestra

She took the disc in her hand, holding it by the edges. Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf conducting. 'I just thought you should hear what you look like,' said Elton.

There is nothing gayer than St Catherine's day. Each workroom has its own orchestra … there is one continuous ball.

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

He returned to the empty space above the pharmacy and continued his practice of the "empty hand", kara-te, whose root is the same as kara-oke, "empty orchestra", the sing-along entertainment machine in bars and homes, but whose meaning is infinitely more profound.

On the other hand, a basic play, in perfect order, can be achieved by, say, whistling fidgetingly while playing yourself. And I once converted two down into two up when playing golf against P. Beard, known also as the leader of an orchestra, by constantly whistling a phrase from the Dorabella Variation with one note – always the same note – wrong.

I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it.

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.

Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.

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When music plays, we hear the melody, forgetting that it is only one of the modes of time; when the orchestra falls silent, we hear time; time itself.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

I've just confirmed every bad joke ever told about second violin players. Question: How many second violinists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: They can't go that high. Gerda

asked Carrie, surprised at her experience. Lots of them, said the girl; haven't you? This is my first experience. Oh, is it? I thought I saw you the time they ran 'The Queen's Mate' here. No, said Carrie, shaking her head; not me. This conversation was interrupted by the blare of the orchestra and the sputtering of the calcium lights in the wings as the line was called to form for a new entrance. No further opportunity for conversation occurred, but the next evening

Before that nothing out of the ordinary – usual flow of people in and out of a busy government building – except, of all things, a whole damned women's orchestra.

No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.

My father's Alfred Newman - born in 1900, child prodigy at the piano, ended up in pit orchestras in the teens. I think he's one of the youngest conductors to conduct Broadway and worked with George Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Cole Porter - went out with Irvin Berlin in 1930 to Hollywood and never left.