You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing
When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.
Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.
As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.
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.
For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
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