Julie Harris

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

American Actress

Frances Arnold

The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music.

American Scientist

Doc Severinsen

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

American Musician

Henry Markram

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

Israeli Scientist

Nile Rodgers

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

Devin Townsend

Deconstruction' is a really heavy record, a real symphony in a lot of ways, but with heavy musicians from the metal world - friends of mine.

Canadian Musician

Bill Dedman

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

American Journalist

Gustav Mahler

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

Austrian Composer

Kyle Hill

Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.

American Author

Johannes Brahms

German Composer

A symphony usually follows a specific structure with distinct parts like an introduction, development, and a finale.

Musical Structure

Famous symphonies have historical and cultural importance, often related to the era or the composer's background.

Historical Significance

A symphony is grand and involves a wide range of musical instruments, creating a rich and full sound.

Expansive Sound

Listening to a symphony can evoke strong emotions, as it takes listeners through various moods and themes.

Emotional Journey

A symphony is best experienced live, where you can enjoy the collective performance of the musicians.

Live Performances

The conductor plays a key role, directing the tempo, dynamics, and expression of the symphony.

Conductor's Role

Symphony can describe a complex collection of elements that harmoniously blend together beyond music.

Metaphorical Use

A symphony in everyday language can refer to an abundance of different, pleasing elements coming together.

Richness in Variety

The term 'symphony' extends to areas like nature or art to convey a sense of beauty and harmony.

Use Beyond Music

 Live music was almost always used in silent films to augment the experience. But the problem with live music is that it didn't scale. It's really hard to cram a full symphony into a small theater, and it's really hard to do that for every theater in the world. So when music recording was actually invented,

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 You have CDs in your car, and you go to the symphony, your children are playing instruments. You can't imagine your life without classical music. That's the first group, quite small. Then there's another bigger group. The people who don't mind classical music. You know, you've come home from a long day,

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 the place and actually slept there and all night there were these extraordinary elephant sounds because elephants don't sleep like we do there was just this symphony of elephants and in the morning they were still there and it was obvious that this was

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 a massive grand piano, a million-key grand piano. Each of these neocortical columns would produce a note. You stimulate it; it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe, your reality.

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 visually literate in the pursuit of beautiful photographs it's kind of like music in that someone who studies music and practices music hears more when they listen to a symphony likewise with photography the more you pay attention

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 the hauntingly bitter sweet even into joy and yet couldn't it be said that all great music is really soul music music that moves you that is sometimes literally so that I might fly myself dancing to a Beethoven symphony or to

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 would be united into a single framework, as they would all arise from vibrating strings. It's a compelling picture, a kind of cosmic symphony, where all the richness that we see in the world around us emerges from the music

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 taking up low, medium and high-frequency bands, in exactly the same way as a symphony does. And countless works of music were inspired by bird and forest song. Yes, the natural world can be our cultural teacher.

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 Clicks, pulses, whistles, groans, boings, cries, and trills, to name a few. But the most famous parts of this underwater symphony are the evocative melodies, or songs, composed by the world's largest mammals,

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 Now, I'd like to start with an example of somebody who had a question-and-answer session after one of my lectures reported a story, and that was a story -- He said he'd been listening to a symphony,