Music Director

🇺🇸Reggie Watts

Entertainment

b. 1972

"The future states that there is no time other than the collapsation of that sensation of the mirror of the memories in which we are living. Common knowledge, but important nonetheless."

🇬🇧Julie Andrews

Entertainment

b. 1935

"As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off."

🇮🇳A. R. Rahman

Music

b. 1966

"Rahman is a genius and has made the world sit up and take notice of Indian talent with his success. He has put the Indian film industry on the world map."

🇺🇸Lorin Maazel

Music

1930–2014

"I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers."

🇯🇵Joe Hisaishi

Music

b. 1950

"I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.There is always an exchange of energies,which is not even.It's one against 80."

🇬🇧Georg Solti

Music

1912–1997

"From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music."

🇦🇷Daniel Barenboim

Music

b. 1942

"Music has the capacity to create a greater reality."

🇦🇹Herbert von Karajan

Music

1908–1989

"If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why."

🇺🇸Bradley Joseph

Music

b. 1965

"All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King."

🇺🇸Sun Ra

Music

1914–1993

"Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom."

🇮🇳M. Balamuralikrishna

Music

1930–2016

"It is only rigorous training and in depth study that make music mature into the realm of the classical."

🇬🇧Constant Lambert

Music

1905–1951

"Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect."

🇺🇸Keith Lockhart

Music

b. 1959

"Leroy Anderson was a crossover composer before anyone came up with the term. The voice of Leroy Anderson became the voice of the Boston Pops in its dual commitment to approachability and to excellence."