World domination for brass is my goal within 10 years.
To play with the great Steve Witser and Joe Alessi that summer in Colorado was pretty special.
I started teaching before I even had a teacher. For me teaching is a joy.
I gravitated to the weird kid instruments. Euphonium. . . . what’s that? I’ll play that!
With opera cues, you don’t have to count everything. It’ll be like 85 bars rest, 144 bars rest and then ‘canon explosion.’ That’s a pretty obvious cue.
Any profession where the supply is much greater than the demand, you have to have tremendous persistence and desire to be really great.
My advice about playing opera. . . don’t drink too many liquids before you start.
When I walked out from behind the screen after being announced as the winner, there were gasps. The committee was flabbergasted. None of them expected a woman.
Homogenous sounding orchestras are actually going to be the death of the orchestras. I would rather hear someone have a psychotic event during a concert.
The personnel manager turned his computer screen around and it said Riccardo Muti is named new music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. I sat down and cried like a baby.
Having real musicians and real orchestras is part of bringing the human experience to the theater. You want to go to a baseball game and see a pitching machine that can be turned up fast enough to strike everybody out? What kind of human experience is that?? It’s NOTHING!
