The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
Interpretation
Orchestras must engage with communities to nurture future talent and audiences.
This quote emphasizes the changing role of orchestras beyond mere performance; they are now tasked with fostering a cultural connection with the community by educating and inspiring future generations of audiences and musicians. In the 21st century, it is vital for orchestras to evolve and ensure their relevance by actively participating in the development of cultural appreciation and music education.
In practice
Use this quote when discussing the importance of music education in schools.
In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.
There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.
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