Jenny Scheinman Quotes

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

I love doing concert music.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

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.

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

A symphony is no joke.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.