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Just to think of them doing 'A Day in the Life,' with that full orchestra revving up at the end? That's a pretty thrilling idea.

Mark Maxson

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

Nicholas Meyer

Thirty is a full orchestra, but we want to have a big orchestra.

Remica Gray

There is no pit orchestra. The musicians are essentially characters in the show. That was a big idea from Des. And it set a structure within which we were able to write the show.

Rick Elice

It will be a tour de force not only for her. It will give the entire orchestra a workout. We have the big city sound here in Merced.

Donna Goggin

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra.

Miriam Makeba

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

Mark Thielen

Bernstein's appearance with the CMF Festival Orchestra on July 20 and 21 is an act of homage. It's our grateful acknowledgment of the contribution that he made in founding the festival.

Michael Christie

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

Adam Schiff

People ask if we made this kind of record with an orchestra because of the classics and I say no, it's made up of the music I had stuffed into my ears as a kid.

Andy Partridge

They become the second-largest donor to the orchestra behind the Fund for the Arts. It sure shows their loyalty to the 71 … they were basically willing to put their money where their loyalty was.

Joseph Pusateri

It's very much like a string orchestra, except that you play with flutes.

Nancy Clew

I think I decided to play the organ because the instrument is like an orchestra at one's fingertips.

Paul Lee

I loved the orchestra from the beginning, ... In addition to allowing me to play, it soon evolved into a volunteer outlet for me.

John Clarke

You can sing Gershwin for an entire evening and have an orchestra play Gershwin for an entire evening and never be bored because there are so many different approaches to things.

Rosemary Clooney

We're working on a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Orchestra Hall in Chicago and a tour of Italy.

Travis Almany

Milton was an absolute force for more than two decades in this community, not only because of his musical attributes but because of his commitment to this city and his ability to rally people around the orchestra and civic causes.

Peter Donnelly

Maestro Behr was a dynamic conductor who worked so well with soloists, the chorus and the musicians of the orchestra, all of whom respected him greatly. He will be deeply missed.

Placido Domingo

But it is also so exciting, because it allows us to really address the fundamental artistic direction of the orchestra for the coming years.

John Driscoll

Many of our audience members are the same people going to the symphony, the opera, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Music Society. By reducing the number of concerts to six, they have a greater chance at attending more of our events.

Glen Kwok

It's a season of great variety with something for everyone. It's been great to see the palpable excitement that Denver feels for this great orchestra.

Jeffrey Kahane

When you have an orchestra, you don't want to just jump ship and leave. This has been a wonderful venue for me.

Paul Nadler

My father understood the orchestra so well that he never overwrote anything. He always got the most he could from the least amount of writing.

Christopher Riddle

It presents a challenge in itself. You can't see the conductor so you're on your own. It's been a challenge for us and the orchestra.

Kerry Wilson

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Sir Thomas Beecham

A smaller core orchestra must be part of any mediated solution.

Scott Provancher

I didn't play it with the Florida Orchestra but with its predecessor, the Florida Gulf Coast Symphony, under Irwin Hoffman in 1980. It has been a long and very nice association.

Garrick Ohlsson

It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.

Jon Brion

Cynthia's violin is beautiful. Her father is a trustee on the Cape Symphony Orchestra board, so we know her work very well and it's beautiful.

Cindy Russell

We're the orchestra and he's the conductor.

Josh Wright

We want to make the orchestra more accessible to people who have never been to see a live concert to come and experience one of the best orchestras in North America.

Chris Deacon

It incorporates everyone in one work ? the orchestra, chorus and our soloist.

Leslie Harlow

It has not only the muscle but the size, the orchestra, the cast.

Bradley Greenwald

There was a band called the National Youth of Orchestra who did a version of Queen's 'We Will Rock You,' ... They were good. It was different.

Sean Cummings

I soon see the day where the symphony and the opera company will be doing a full opera with a full symphony orchestra in the new Performing Arts Centre.

Robert Raines

I do movies because I love writing for orchestra though it scares me and the money is good. I can't make a living doing just albums, times are difficult now for geriatric artists.

Randy Newman

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Cecil Taylor

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Leonard Bernstein

I don't think many people noticed it. You couldn't hear it because the orchestra was also playing.

Dwayne Brown

Andy Hull was 17 the first time I saw Manchester Orchestra play. His songwriting was way more intelligent and mature than I would expect from someone his age.

Joe Kirk

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Andre Segovia

A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.

John Barrymore

The discount offers are for the best available seats, and are often orchestra seats.

Gretchen Shugart

Acceptance into the All State band, chorus or orchestra is the only criteria for this honor.

Wade Presley

It doesn't matter to me, whether I play alone or with an orchestra, I still get a little nervous. But I love meeting new people wherever I go.

Alexandre Bouzlov

At our first meeting I remember when someone said, 'It would be great if the Lahti Orchestra would do recordings that would get international reviews,' and everyone started to laugh.

Osmo Vanska

I don't think I am going to play in London with an orchestra until I can be assured that I'm getting adequate rehearsal," declares Kennedy. "And if that's never, I won't play in London with an English orchestra. I'll have to bring one in from somewhere else.

Nigel Kennedy

Carnegie Hall is at the center of the music world, and when our orchestra appears there, people will gain a renewed appreciation for the artistic quality of the music we have in Houston.

Hans Graf

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

John Goodman

I'm British, and I like to do some British music, ... That's something I can bring to the orchestra, is music from my homeland.

Huw Edwards

Incredibly good training for the orchestra.

Huw Edwards

It was our family's first appearance with an orchestra. For Michael and me, it was a day we'll never forget.

Deborah Charness

We did not ask for it. They knew about us. They were impressed at how an orchestra our size was growing and achieving professional status.

Pam Slaton

This is a very musically oriented production, and we're doing all the same music they do on Broadway. The orchestra sounds just great. They've really worked hard to master the music.

Virginia Morelli

The orchestra plays the first movement as usual, but there are two sportscasters narrating it as if it were a baseball game.

Gregory Pritchard

Sometimes I will be hearing an orchestra in my head and I'm trying to get that sound to come out on the guitar.

Bill Frisell

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

The concert hall is the instrument of the orchestra. We're a producing institution. We build what we make.

Joseph Mckenna

It's like the whole world is this orchestra and I'm the conductor.

Evan Rachel Wood