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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.


Martin Short


#concert #criticized #eccentricity #master #mother

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.


Michael Tilson Thomas


#francisco #i #important #just #mostly

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.


Nicholas Meyer


#analogous #bit #collaborative #conductor #director

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.


Stephen Fry


#carlo-maria-giulini #humor #mornings #music #schubert

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!


Malcolm Arnold


#am #another #been #donald #expert

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.


Jane Byrne


#considered #greatest #orchestra #symphony #world

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.


Nelson Goodman


#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.


Erich Leinsdorf


#come #could #director #find #first

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.


Nile Rodgers


#chair #feels #first #great #i

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.


Teddy Wilson


#concert #concert hall #get #hall #hear






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