I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.