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.
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.
I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
I've often been accused of, 'Oh the movies looked good but there's no story,' but I disagree with that in theory, and '9' is a perfect example for me because the feel, the texture, and the look of that world, and those characters, is the story. That's a major component of why you feel the way you do when you're watching it.
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
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