Quotes About Orchestra

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

I need one more bass less.

More basses, because you are so far away.

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.

To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.

The first orchestral leader to use a baton was German conductor Louis Spohr, in 1820. Prior to the use of a baton, conductors often tapped a staff on the floor to demonstrate the beat — a practice that led to the death of 17th century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, who stabbed himself in the foot with his staff and subsequently died of gangrene.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

Gioacchino Rossini, the composer of William Tell and many other operas, had a good grasp of the relationship between music and food: "What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions." If

What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions.

Laymen were able to make a career as composers and performers. Every prince and cardinal had his musical staff and cappella, his private orchestra. Especially in northern Italy, a public of musical connoisseurs existed, stimulating composers to seek subtle, tenuous effects. Technical mastery and the conquest of difficulties were recognized and applauded.

The earliest compositions for instruments alone date from the thirteenth century. These were performed at courtly functions. We hear of a fourteenth-century concert by an orchestra with thirty-six kinds of instruments.

The William Tell Overture," complete with cannons and fireworks.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

In conclusion, the visitor took out a cambric pocket-handkerchief, and sneezed into it with a vehemence wholly new to Tientietnikov's experience. In fact, the sneeze rather resembled the note which, at times, the trombone of an orchestra appears to utter not so much from its proper place on the platform as from the immediate neighbourhood of the listener's ear.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

No conductor of any symphony orchestra requires more sensitivity, more powers of observation, more finely tuned instincts, more passionate desires for perfection than the great classic racehorse trainer.

Sólo quería dejar bien sentado que el contrabajo es el instrumento central de la orquesta. En el fondo lo sabe todo el mundo, sólo que nadie lo confiesa abiertamente