When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
Nicholas Meyer
We are doing an organ symphony, and we need that instrument. First Presbyterian Church has one of the largest and best organs in all of West Texas.
Ceo M. Wade Kelley
Bringing the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, fabulous guest vocalists and this super-sized chorus together to perform Beethoven's Ninth reflects the nature of this revolutionary piece -- it requires all 240 people on stage to do justice to the power and magnificence of Beethoven's final symphony.
Robert Hanson
It'll be a really, really huge challenge for me because I've never done anything like that with a symphony before.
Randy Owen
During his four-year tenure as conductor of the symphony orchestra, Kevin did much to raise the standards for the group. He challenged them with new repertory as well as with some of the giants of the traditional repertory. His performance of the Mahler Second Symphony was said by some long-time music faculty to be one of the highest points in the history of the School of Music.
Glenn Chandler
It was a wonderful surprise. We did not know that Bertha had remembered the symphony in her will until after her death. It was such a generous thing to do.
Carolyn Valacich
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Arthur Rubenstein
Jeans & Classics have a great reputation as one of the more highly rated national touring symphony pops program groups. The Jeans 'n' Classics band -- there are several of them -- do covers of great bands of the past. There's a Led Zeppelin band. They have a Beatles Band. And people really swear by them. They are very well rehearsed and they are very polished.
Ted Hale
Mahler's first symphony is not a typical symphony in that it's not abstract music; it does conjure up images of nature and images of heroism.
Gregory Pritchard
The G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
Glenn Gould
And it still produces, too. The Stockton Symphony is top-notch in my book, and there's some great students coming to the institute. Joe Gilman (the American River College music professor who also teaches at the institute) is one of the most talented pianists I've ever heard. That praise doesn't do him justice.
Dave Brubeck
We might actually sell out of Magnolia tickets, which has never happened before. We have 570 tickets for the event. At this point, we are approaching 500 sold. This is the largest fundraiser we do every year for the Symphony Guild, and I think this is going to be the best year ever.
Patty Williams
A symphony is no joke.
Johannes Brahms
I chose Beethoven because it is very recognizable. Most people know those famous first four notes of this symphony.
Yoichi Udagawa
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson
We're playing Mozart's 35th symphony because of the historical significance. It was the first piece the orchestra played when it started in 1982.
Gregory Pritchard
There needs to be a concert like this. We have an extraordinary trombone section (in the Utah Symphony), and NOVA needs to feature sections, as well as individual players.
Corbin Johnston
The West Valley Symphony will be eternally grateful to community members who supported the symphony over its long performing history in the Sun Cities. They are truly angels in our eyes. We only wish the outcome could have been different.
Fred Berkenkamp
The (symphony) board just decided we didn't have the cash to make payrolls at this point, and we'd better stop.
Fred Berkenkamp
Things we do and experience have resonance. It can die away quickly or last a long time; it can have a clear center frequency or a wide bandwidth; be loud, soft or ambiguous. The present is filled with past experience ringing in various ways and now is colored by this symphony of resonance.
Paul Lansky
The Internet provides the Milwaukee Symphony with a direct and unique link to listeners across the globe.
Mark Hanson
It's not every day you get to attend a symphony. That kind of exposure is good.
Beverly Thomas
We're all just amazed, ... that the Seattle Symphony people have stepped forward on our behalf like this. But I know that people in the LPO would have done the same thing for them. It's a small world — symphonies are like families, so we're all sort of related.
Greg Miller
This is such a hard thing. Selling could hurt the symphony, and we want to protect the integrity of what this facility is here for.
Jeff Montalbano
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
Every situation is very different. For 29 years here, it had been Seiji, Seiji, Seiji. So it was great for the players that, for two years [with Levine waiting in the wings], the focus was the Boston Symphony. But at the same time, what Jim has been able to do here in just two years is bring a focus and a standard. Bernard Haitink immediately remarked on the difference.
Mark Volpe
As you know, we have been struggling recently to keep our non-profit symphony orchestra afloat in the midst of a changing community and cultural environment. Symphony operational costs have risen and our donations and sponsorships are down sharply.
Fred Berkenkamp
Recovering data without making provisions for recovering applications is a lot like having the sheet music but no instruments, musicians, concert hall or conductor to play the symphony. It's just not going to get the job done.
Peter Mckellar
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
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Gustav Mahler
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
The way it's best described is DHS is the conductor of an orchestra. All of these partners ... are the various musicians playing beautiful music together creating a symphony of preparedness. We've made great progress.
George Foresman
On my way out here, I was writing all the way on the plane, ... and as soon as I got to San Diego, I arranged with the symphony to find an old practice room in their basement. It's better than two-thirds completed. I'd say four-fifths.
Dave Brubeck
Besides, the opera contains realistic sword fights, accompaniment by the Utah Symphony and amazing singers. It will be one of the most romantic productions ever to come to Salt Lake City.
Spencer Clark
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 now have 20 years experience conducting Mahler's Second Symphony and studying all of Mahler's music. About the same amount of time I concentrated on finance and the media. I suppose I know more about Mahler now than I know about finance. But someone else would have to decide whether I was a better executive or conductor.
Gilbert Kaplan
The voice has a limited frequency range, ... So, to make it beneficial for singers, we had to dampen the basses by using softer, more flexible surfaces for the side walls. You'd never do that in a symphony hall - people love to hear the deep bottom of the bass section.
Robert Mahoney
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.
Aaron Copland
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
Hunter S. Thompson
This is an important milestone both for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the American orchestra industry. For the first time, an American orchestra is making available its archives on iTunes and other commercial download sites, finally realizing the promise of the groundbreaking AF of M (American Federation of Musicians) Internet Agreement of 2000.
Robert Levine
[Tchaikovsky] was going through tough times then, because he went through a divorce. This symphony is very intense and passionate but with a very optimistic and exciting ending.
Gerardo Edelstein
A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
John Barrymore
It never really sounds the same. It's sort of like a good symphony orchestra playing a Mozart symphony. You can play it and sit on your ass and nothing happens, or you can play it and make it feel fresh. And that's what this band does.
Lou Blue Marini
I'm very interested in the color of sound. And I'm very interested in the juxtaposition of different things, ethnic instruments juxtaposed with symphonic instruments, and I'm interested in the ancient and the modern. I don't know why, but it has always been something that's fascinated me, from when I first heard a symphony orchestra I wanted to know how those sounds were made.
Anne Dudley
It's always been a fun evening where you can visit with your friends and enjoy the camaraderie while listening to good entertainment and supporting the symphony.
Joanna Browning
We support the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, which does great things in the community, and we are able to promote our services to a target audience away from the hard sell.
Theo Staub
[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
We've been sowing the seeds for a Florida West Coast Symphony that is more diverse and broader in appeal, and that at the same time is playing at a higher level of quality. Not all orchestras have this story to tell.
Joseph Mckenna
Bill is one of those dream volunteers that all organizations would like to clone. The symphony has gained mightily by Bill's leadership by example and the positive energy he brings to the group.
Nancy Wright
It can be regarded as a kind of symphony, or in another way as a kind of opera - or even a horse opera. It is hot music, a poem, a song, a comedy, a farce, and so forth. It is superficial, profound, entertaining, and boring, according to taste. It is a prophecy, a political warning, a cryptogram, a preposterous movie.
Malcolm Lowry
The elephant in the living room for us is the huge number of seats and the emptiness for great concerts. ... The symphony has to look out for itself. That's what we the trustees are there for. Right now, our first line of defense is a renovation with reduction of seating.
Rick Reynolds
In the golden half-light of a midsummer's evening, the sort where any kind of magic can occur, and often does, in the midst of a party held in a wild and rambling garden, stood Pierre, teetering on highly unsuitable heels, surrounded by a symphony of overripe roses.
Sophie Dahl
Steven is such an asset to this orchestra. Because he and I view so many aspects of music-making the same, it makes it easy for us. When I'm asking for a particular sound, he knows what I mean and he's able to communicate it technically to the string players. Steven has really helped me tremendously in our effort to make the Tucson Symphony strings sound like a major orchestra.
George Hanson
We're not saying we're the pros from Dover, ... This is just something that's not being done here and it's very important. A modern and sophisticated city needs this kind of theatre in the same way that it needs a symphony orchestra or an art gallery -- to engage and inform its citizens and artists through exposure to the great works of humankind.
John Wright
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
We're the rare animal in the symphony orchestra world; while most orchestras belong to a city, we belong to the state.
Alice Golembo
He loved the ambience of San Francisco -- the elegance of worldliness. Right up to his death, he thought there was nothing better than going to the symphony or the opera. He loved the restaurants in San Francisco, and liked music and the arts. He was by no means a shut-in, even at 92.
John Ruffin
There may be music they're familiar with from the movies or something like that. And it sounds so much better played by a full symphony. ... I sing along in my mind and love it when they play Broadway.
Susan Jones
We're excited to partner with the Plymouth Symphony, especially during such a significant year in their history.
Bill Keith
Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.
Sharon Long
[The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is the proud of offspring of the New Orleans Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1991, leaving its musicians unemployed and stunned.] They didn't tell us, ... We found out because we got letters from our health insurance company saying our policies had been canceled.
John Fairlie
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
I believe that my newly completed symphony will show the world that atonality and ugly dissonance at the price of giving up inspiration, form, expression, melody and beauty will result in ultimate disaster for the art of music.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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