Dropping Quote by Allan Kozinn

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who…

— David Ogden Stiers

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

— Skitch Henderson

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

— Lara St. John

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

— Simon Rattle

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that…

— Robertson Davies

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it…

— Jeffrey Tate

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

— David Ogden Stiers

We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.

— Jane Lynch

There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to the L.A.…

— Simon Rattle

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest

— James Levine

People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who…

— David Ogden Stiers