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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments.
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent
to a gang bent on destruction.
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.
An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.
There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra
I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling.
Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.
I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself.
To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
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.
It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was just forming a band.
Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.
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.
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
It's a great privilege and a highlight for choir and orchestra members to perform for audiences in live concerts.
If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.
I don't want the World Dream Orchestra to be like a dessert whose taste is instantly forgotten as soon as you leave the restaurant.
What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once.
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.
Yeah, I would go to New England Conservatory a lot. My orchestra teacher ran a program for minority students there.
