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The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
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Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.
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You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
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Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
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Classical wasn't my only interest in those days. Potsdam was the place where I fell in love with jazz, a love that, for a while at least, I thought would be my life.
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I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
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Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.
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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.
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Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I listen mostly to classical music.
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The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
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I love listening to classical music.
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Mozart is the incarnation of music.
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Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
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With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.
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In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.
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No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
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Mozart is the musical Christ.
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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night!
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Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!
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Barney Bigard's clarinet,
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it's a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.
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A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
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In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
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To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
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I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
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Music, the mosaic of the air
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Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.
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Late in the afternoon Solomon, Beethoven,
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You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.
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The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
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Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
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The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
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The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
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You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
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I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.
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One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Mozart is sweet sunshine.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
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Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
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I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
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Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.
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The guitar is an orchestra in itself.
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It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
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When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
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Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.
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Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
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Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.
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I did a concert ... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic ... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
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It's been very exciting for me to start directing and conducting, exploring the symphonic repertoire, which I've always loved.
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Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer!
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I love Gershwin. I love musicals.
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The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.
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Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
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Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the utopian messenger, pleasing us with his account of an ideal land but also warning us, in his tones, of all the dangers.
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Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
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the mighty harmonies of Beethoven
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The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.
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I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
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The tuning up of an orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can in some measure, however little, anticipate the symphony.
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My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
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Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.
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I love stuff like Mozart.
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My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
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With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
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Every symphony, for example, is a sonata for orchestra; every string quartet is a sonata for four strings; every concerto a sonata for a solo instrument and orchestra.
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The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.
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Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
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The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
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While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.
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Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.
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Symphony starts when you walk together, feel the heart beats and understand the unspoken words.
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Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.
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I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.
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Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
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A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.
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The strings all soar,
The reeds implore,
The brasses roar with notes galore.
It's music that we all adore
It's what we go to concerts for.
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I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.
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Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.
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As for the symphonic activities ... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.
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Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
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The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.