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It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

I've got two young boys that love playing and I wanted to get a program going. I don't even have any kids at Midland Classical right now.

It was a battle of a game. This one was like looking into a mirror and smashing into yourself. I love the Lynn Classical program. Gene's a great guy. I've been a fan of the program since Helen Ridley played.

It's very easy (to remain focused) because every game the rest of the way is a battle. We can't look past anyone. We know if we lose ahead of time, then the Classical game will mean so much less.

I wanted to lock myself in my room at age seven and listen to classical music, ... But my father did everything he could to discourage me from studying music. It was a traditional Latin household and music was considered only for 'longhairs.'

The use of incense was very common in olden times. It was employed for profane purposes as an antidote to the lassitude caused by very great heat, as perfumes are now used. Mention of its introduction into pagan worship is made by classical writers, but today it has brought people together.

These three pieces contrast with each other. The works are accessible for people not familiar with classical music, so I would recommend this concert.

This is definitely a departure from the classical musicals we've done in the past. I wanted to do something totally different and quirky and weird.

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

I'm going back to work in China. Chinese movies are getting very very strong now. I'm going back in December to work on a movie based on a classical novel. I play a woman who loves decadence.

I hope the commercial market will pick up on this. We are all in this together. We all want to get classical music out there.

I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours that are more in the line that classical musicians play.

I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.

I'm a classically trained musician. Most of the time I'm playing solo classical guitar. It's really exciting to be able to meld with a group of musicians, express myself on a larger palette.

I'm a fan of a lot of classical music.

Increasingly in the last few years, Europe and the United States have been kind of going their own separate ways when it comes to classical music, ... I think there's more of a division than there was 10 years ago, especially since people aren't making recordings in the same way they used to.

In certain situations, there is a classical function and responsibility there that must not be avoided, even if it is just to appeal to good sense.

I like people to see that classical music is not stuffy. It's something for any generation.

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.

In 1992, the Coterie formed a partnership with the graduate acting program at UMKC to have the third year graduating class make their Coterie debut each January-February. Because the program emphasizes the acting of classical material, the Coterie is able to produce plays that utilize the students' skills.

I listen to a lot less classical music today than I used to,

I listen constantly to classical music and I find that stretches my imagination. I listen to some contemporary and even cutting-edge things.

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.

If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.

In the end I got to use a lot of my young girls. We wanted to come out and fight to the end and we got to do that with our juniors, sophomores and freshmen. Classical is a real good team, and they are the best team we have played all year.

In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'

I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.

I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.

I really feel bad for people who only experience one type of music. There's so much out there. And that has always been something I have thrived on. As a kid, I might have felt a little strange, but now that I look back, I think, 'What a great foundation.' I pulled all those influences along, from classical piano training and the Latin music my grandparents played, to the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Dave Clark Five records my dad would play. It all came together as I got older.

I really hope that I can continue to do classical theatre - it's something I am really passionate about and I'd love to explore.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

In those projects with Sting and Josh Groban and people like that, I see a very interesting effect: their fans coming to my classical concerts, people who've never been to a classical show at all.

In the past, we've done a classical concert in Odessa and then done a classical concert in Midland. Our thinking is by putting the concerts between both cities, we will get the audience from both.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though, and this is more a hybrid of pop and classical music.

It has to be more than just the music, ... When I was in college, I hated classical music. Then, a girl got me to go to a concert and because I wanted to be there, the night flew by.

Clearly, we're not seeing widespread classical influenza infections with this virus or we would have picked it up by now. I think the case fatality rate probably is pretty significant given the data that we have.

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.

Classical did an excellent job. They were more assertive on offense then we were. I was happy that our team played hard to the end. But, we have to do a better job on defense. We picked up a lot of fouls because we weren't moving our feet.

Classical did an excellent job in attacking the offensive boards. They were much more aggressive than us on offense and that was the difference.

I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.

Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' You see it all the time; you start to learn the steps a little.

If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.

I am not a classical actor; I am an entertainer. I fell into classical acting by mistake and actually started out as a singer. I wrote the music for a musical play and it transferred to London and I sang the songs in London.

I am able to do normal things, classical if you want.

I don't listen to a lot of music, and wouldn't necessarily sit down and put on the radio. If I did, I'd probably put on a bit of classical stuff.

He played classical piano, sang opera and was a carpenterall as an amateur. But what he did was extraordinary.

The Guarneri is a fantastic instrument, both for playing classical music and for what I'm doing now. It's great for playing improvised music on, cause you get such great response. And for the same reason it's great for classical music too. It's a good violin.

The goal of the Pops ... is still to keep the music somehow reflective of the popular culture of the day, but also reach out. Really, you know, the Pops is the best cultural outreach tool we have for classical music. Fiedler would still recognize much of our repertoire.

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

The classical world is a completely different planet from the rock world. But I was welcomed with open arms by the orchestra musicians. I walked into their world, they didn't walk into mine. Once I worked with them they were very impressed and I gained their acceptance.

The classical song is something that is small. It's more subtle. It's the poem, the singer and pianist putting together a song and interpreting it in their own way.

The classical realm is dying because nobody cares about new classical composers. My concerto suite was an injection of something new,

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

The concert offerings available to a student at the University of Florida will round out the education beyond the classroom. Classical music provides a way to support culture and make society great.

His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.