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The Berlin Philharmonic has a music director, and the Vienna Philharmonic doesn't. They're two of the best orchestras in the world.

Mark Volpe

We do a lot with a little. We also have composed modern classical music for orchestras, so that helps us understand how to voice and temper our uses of instruments.

Jonah Rapino

We are competing with the top orchestras in the country for the top musicians. We can't just assume once we put out a notice, they will come.

Gerard Schwarz

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

Orchestras are having trouble across the country. Lots of orchestras have deficits, but the larger ones have a better cash flow and are not threatened. All orchestras have very large fixed costs, but the smaller ones have the challenges of fundraising and meeting those costs.

Michael M. Kaiser

I have hundreds of hours of this music on tape performed by orchestras at the college that, as I said, have never seen the light of any other day.

Bill Dixon

We submitted an application, and we were one of two orchestras (to be chosen for 2007) ? the other is in North Carolina.

Carolyn Valacich

[In the 1950s, he began conducting symphony orchestras across the country, in Canada and in Europe. He first conducted] pops ... one of the great train wrecks of my life.

Carnegie Hall

When you see all we do at the local level and how we make the arts community aware of Sioux City at a national level, I can't imagine a better use of funds. Our symphony is 90 years old. It's one of the oldest orchestras in the country. It's been one of the best supported by its community and certainly it is my hope it will continue.

Doug Gerhart