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.
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.
While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
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