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Orchestra Quotes by Eugene Ormandy
- There is a number missing. I can see it.
- That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.
- Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.
- Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?
- Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.
- Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.
- Write it down in your own handwriting.
- Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.
- More basses, because you are so far away.
- I need one more bass less.
- Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.
- Brass, stay down all summer.
- Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.
- It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.
- We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.
- Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.
- Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.
- With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
- Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The…
- That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
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