{ Stories }

"Listening to his symphony today, you hear ideas that later became associated with Mahler: the gestures, the orchestral language, the sense of a new symphonic world."

– Paavo Järvi

“I realize now that it's just like playing the instrument; you learn and you hone your craft, and there is a craft, not just an art, and the craft requires a lot of work.”

– Inbal Segev

"I do not want to be alone in exploring this genre. I want to see a world where there is music for art everywhere, like how every film has a score."

– Niles Luther

"So much of acting is about the relationships you have with other people you're on stage with, so unless you've sung this with them a bunch of times, I don't know how I would do it."

– Jacquelyn Stucker

"Schumann’s songs are as much piano pieces as they are music for voice, and the piano often completes what the voice has said."

– Ian Bostridge

"This painful juggling act has become a hallmark of modern life for anyone who is “lucky” enough to accompany their parents along this final path."

– Nicholas Phan

"This instrument came to me at the moment I was rethinking my sound. I wanted to be freer, exploring sounds that are not just beautiful but with more possibilities for ugliness..."

– Inmo Yang

"At a certain point in the symphony, during a rehearsal, a question comes from the first music stand of the second violins: ‘No ritenuto here? Nothing?’ I reply, with the arrogant confidence dictated by inexperience: ‘Of course not!’ I was wrong, of course.”