Orchestra Quotes

• Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My range is about one and a half notes. I ended up talking the musical numbers, which was revolutionary at the time. The lyrics are extremely intricate. They move along like a precisely acted scene. If you miss a word - heaven help you - the orchestra rattles past like an express train, and you've got to run like the devil to catch up.

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Running
  • Teacher
  • Musical

• Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

  

  Nico Muhly
  • Music
  • Sad
  • Orchestra

• The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Directors
  • Bigger
  • Conducting

• Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Audience
  • Scenery
  • Whenever

• Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

  

  Nico Muhly
  • Music
  • Crowd
  • Orchestra

• Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

  

  Eric San
  • Musical
  • Orchestra

• The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

  

  Simon Rattle
  • Way
  • Conduct
  • Orchestra

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