Quotes: Orchestras

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.

Bobby McFerrin

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

David Del Tredici

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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.

James Levine

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

Skitch Henderson

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Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

Skitch Henderson

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

Lara St. John

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

Placido Domingo

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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.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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