Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. – Gustav Mahler
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra – not choreography to the audience. – George Szell
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. – Gerry Mulligan
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don’t have much point in the orchestra. – Gerry Mulligan
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. – James Levine
Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it. – James Nesbitt
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. – Chick Corea
When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin. – Daniel Barenboim
Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. – David Ogden Stiers
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. – Lawrence Welk
I’m not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. – Leonard Bernstein
I sing what I sing. And that’s recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease – no, that’s not the right word – let’s say to satisfy – any opera urgings that my public has, I’ll put in an aria. – Kathleen Battle
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn’t just playing, it’s about developing future audiences and performers. – Leonard Slatkin
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that’s what I started to do. – Joseph Jarman
I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he’s a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine. – Pierre Boulez
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. – Quincy Jones
I’ve watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. – Skitch Henderson
