“The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.” RolesAudienceCenturyDevelopingPerformers21st CenturyOrchestra Author:Leonard Slatkin
“The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.” IfsFeelsPlayFeelingsGamesAudienceOrchestraTangible Author:Frank Gehry
“A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.” AudienceWorstMusicalIllPassionateBoxesOrchestraGeometrySobrietyRespectabilityUninspiring Book:Message from a Stranger: A Novel Source: Message from a Stranger: A Novel
“Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.” FeelsMindRealMotivationalRolesAudienceDanceLegsOrchestraBlueprints Author:Linda Hamilton
“Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.” KindShowsWould BeFilmReadingAudienceSeeingJudgingConcertsConformOrchestraSymphonySymphony Orchestras Author:Laurie Anderson