Audience Quote by Karen DeCrow

Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing,…

— Karen DeCrow

I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is…

— David Finckel

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

— Gustav Mahler

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

— Ry Cooder

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there…

— Karen DeCrow

The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed…

— Raymond Scott

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for…

— Arnold Bennett

it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience…

— Tod Machover

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper…

— David Ogden Stiers

Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the…

— Frank Gehry