Symphony Quotes

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. - Esa-Pekka Salonen

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. - Benjamin Disraeli

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. - Madeleine L'Engle

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. - Erich Leinsdorf

When I was a kid, I won a contest and played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony, and I've written some movie scores, and I've been listening to orchestral music for years. - Herbie Hancock

We've been sowing the seeds for a Florida West Coast Symphony that is more diverse and broader in appeal, and that at the same time is playing at a higher level of quality. Not all orchestras have this story to tell. - Joseph McKenna

We're the rare animal in the symphony orchestra world; while most orchestras belong to a city, we belong to the state. - Alice Golembo

We're playing Mozart's 35th symphony because of the historical significance. It was the first piece the orchestra played when it started in 1982. - Gregory Pritchard

We're not saying we're the pros from Dover... This is just something that's not being done here and it's very important. A modern and sophisticated city needs this kind of theatre in the same way that it needs a symphony orchestra or an art gallery -- to engage and inform its citizens and artists through exposure to the great works of humankind. - John Wright

We're excited to partner with the Plymouth Symphony, especially during such a significant year in their history. - Bill Keith