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Letter "O" » orchestra
«Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.»
Author: George Szell
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choreography, conductor, conductors, orchestra, Orchestras, signals, suggestive, suggestive of, unmistakable
«God comes to us in theater [in] the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.»
«I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.»
Author: Leonard Bernstein
(Composer, Conductor, Pianist)
| Keywords:
composer, orchestra, Orchestras
«A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.»
«he American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.»
«I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.»
Author: Nadia Boulanger
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astonishment, conducting, gotten, initial, initialed, initials, orchestra
«Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.»
Author: Zubin Mehta
(Conductor, Pianist, Violinist)
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cynicism, exuberance, fatigue, orchestra, philharmonic, scratch, The New York, tremendous
«A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized»
Author: John Barrymore
(Actor)
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fiddler, fiddlers, orchestra, Orchestras, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, symphonies, symphony, symphony orchestra
«A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.»
Author: Robert Benchley
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breathing, button, collar, collars, failing, giddiness, Golden Age, inability, kidney, kidneys, orchestra, rent, shortness, shortness of breath, shut off, The Golden Age, trembling
«For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life»
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