As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.
Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
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