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#symphony

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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

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


Martin Short


#concert #criticized #eccentricity #master #mother

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

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

You flatter me, my dear girl." He demurred playfully with a small bow. Rose always cheered him up. "You've got a nice bum." She shrugged with a bright, cheerful grin. Seeing her happy was always a pleasure. "That opinion seems to run in your family. Your father said the same to me on numerous occasions. Sadly, he followed it up with 'but it's in the way of the television'." Eric smiled wryly


Cecilia Ryan


#family

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.


Brian Ferneyhough


#compose #easier #form #just #manual

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.


Barbara Cook


#concert #could #doing #eve #feel

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.


Tom Glazer


#artists #come #commission #having #hundreds






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