“Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.” IfsKnowsIdeasPlayBeautifulClearPiecesOrchestra Author:Kurt Masur
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.” WorldBookRealReasonPlayMomentsAbleThreeWishGrowsEnvironmentPiecesTvsShapesHundredIncrediblesSeedsArguingColourDimensionsThank GodBeatenTornOrchestraSymphonyClawsScepticismKnowledge And PowerThree DimensionsSymphony Orchestras Author:Ray Bradbury
“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.” IfsMindDiesLanguagePiecesThousandTortureNightmareNervesOrchestraCorpsesSymbolic Author:Asger Jorn
“Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.” MotherPiecesRelateOrchestraViolin Author:Anton Webern
“I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions.” ForceFeltWhiteFivePiecesHeardMinutesDirectImpactHungryTensionScoreAggressiveCompositionOrchestraFive MinutesSeductiveStripesVisceralKeystonesEnigmaticUnlockingWhite StripesHovercrafts Author:Wayne McGregor
“Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.” IfsThinkingWayHeartSoulVoiceBehindsPiecesSingersOrchestraNo PointHeart And SoulGreat Voice Author:Bob Dylan
“The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.” LanguagePiecesInstrumentsPianoConstructionOrchestraChamber Author:Howard Shore