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Chamber music - a conversation between friends. -- Catherine Drinker Bowen
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. -- S. J. Perelman
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. -- Neville Marriner
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. -- Gustav Mahler
I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing. -- David Finckel
Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist. -- David Finckel
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like. -- Haruki Murakami
I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons. -- Wu Han
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing. -- Cheryl Mendelson
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music. -- Amos Oz
Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand. -- George Steiner
What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.) -- Michele Norris
The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing. -- Wu Han
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble. -- Anne Akiko Meyers
Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before. -- Condoleezza Rice
With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship. -- Nico Muhly
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner. -- Colm Toibin
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre. -- Elliott Sharp
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. -- Christo
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. -- Andre Previn
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." -- Neville Marriner
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. -- Tod Machover
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. -- K. A. Applegate
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. -- Karen DeCrow
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber. -- Harold MacMillan
I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. -- Condoleezza Rice
I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting. -- Tod Machover
[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music. -- Leonard Cohen

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