Music
- Amsterdam Sinfonietta
- Jos van den Berg
- Concertgebouw, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Jos van Immerseel
- Mariss Jansons
- Ton Koopman
- Netherlands Opera, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ralph van Raat, André Rieu, Joris Roelofs, Rotterdam Philharmonic
- Jan Willem de Vriend
- Edo de Waart, Hanneke de Wit, Rob van de Wouw
- Jaap van Zweden
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The band waked me with a serenade. How they improve! A fine band and what a life in a regiment! Their music is better than food and clothing to give spirit to the men.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,—at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives on the sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)