Eugene Ormandy Quotes

I love doing concert music.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

I don't believe in a composer who is only able to compose, who can't play or conduct, can only use a computer. If that trend continues there will be no more symphonies, no more oratorios.

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

A symphony is no joke.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.