#symphony

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ↗

— Julie Harris

#beautiful #comes #communicate #each #expressing

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#bows #high #high school #i #loved

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#burning desire #desire #having #i #myself

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#ear #ever #fifth #into #man

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#first #mine #new #piece #play

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. ↗

— David Ives

#instruments #invent #less #more #only

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

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