#repertoire

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#before #case #direction #even #i

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#already #built #capable #chosen #everyone

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment. ↗

— David Deutsch

#environment #every #generator #includes #possible

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#art #days #devote #energies #himself

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#composers #continuum #modern #music #now

When ignorance reigns in society and disorder in the minds of men, laws are multiplied, legislation is expected to do everything, and each fresh law being a fresh miscalculation, men are continually led to demand from it what can proceed only from themselves, from their own education and their own morality. ↗

— French Jurist

#education

The triumph of plainsong, of polyphony, and of truly liturgical organ playing, in the first half century of his life, represented for Duruflé the victory of a transcendent, hieratic worldview over the secular and popular aberrations ushered in by the nineteenth century. Their demise in the 1960s meant more than the loss of a well-regarded musical tradition; it was also an assault on the worldview that gave his life meaning. ↗

— James E. Frazier

#organ-music #organ-repertoire #music

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#company #dance #ever #expensive #furthers

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#goal #guess #i #just #really

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance. ↗

— Frank Black

#before #chicken #egg #live #live performance