It's been a long time since I've typed up any Jason quotes, mostly because I either don't remember them or he doesn't say much that makes sense out of context.

On Mahler #1:"All these beautiful sounds are supposed to represent the sun coming up... then you take the repeat and the sun has to come up again ( Read more... )

I haven't talked about music stuff for a long time. I used to post once a week with amusing quotes from Jason, our orchestra conductor, but for a while I either haven't remembered things he's said or I couldn't properly take them out of context. Our next concert is the annual pops one, and this year is a strange mish-mash of some Broadway songs, ( Read more... )

There must have been some bad turkey getting eaten last weekend, because there were quite a few important people missing last night, including the concertmaster and her assistant (who's always there). Somehow this meant that yours truly got tapped to sit first chair for the evening. Not that I mind; I'm one of the few who isn't afraid to sit up ( Read more... )

--"It's sounding kind of... atheistic there."
--"It says 'spiritually'."
--"That's my point."

"Play that line like you would sing it, if you were Finnish... which you aren't."

"This is probably the weirdest thing you're ever going to hear from me, but I want it to be athletic, yet robust."

"Piano, but kind of a redneck-y piano."

"Allegro energico, but not allegro holy crap-o."

"All of these metronome markings are negotiable in cash."

"Basses, if you keep cheating the rhythm like that, the violas are going to meet you in the parking lot."

"Strictly in tempo until 79, then subito Phillip Glass-o."

"I like the chord at 94, it's kind of Barbra Streisand/Wind Beneath My Wings."

"You're supposed to point and laugh and jeer at me there."

"I'm not sure if it's quoting 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina' there, but we'll have to discuss it another time."

"Why am I even here??"

"How did my career come to this?"

"If you don't play at 138, feel free to give me the finger."

"Diminuendo, which is Italian for, 'get me out of here!'"

"Spanish people are never on time."

I hardly talk about this stuff any more, without much reason. I know there's only one other person that might care, and she already knows this stuff. But whatever ( Read more... )

"You can't really serenade your girlfriend in the tower with a snare drum. Now, a viola, on the other hand..."

"In the nine years since we last played this piece, I've learned a lot about musical interpretation as it relates to chickens."

[Sings complicated 6-8 rhythm] "I think of it as on, before, after, after, on, before, before... Maybe you ( Read more... )

Jason quote from last night ( Read more... )