Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.
I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.
Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.
I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a scooter, and I just scoot very quickly on stage, and they're saying, wow, look at this. He's so fast.
Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.
It's hot as hell as can be.
I conduct faster so you can see my beat.
I can conduct better than I count.
Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.
Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.
It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.
There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just have to do a little ADR and then some mixing, we've actually got to bring the orchestra back because there is music, as you probably noticed, right the way through the film so you have to orchestrate all of that extra time.
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
