Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.
It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is.
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.
The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.
When I started singing, people said I couldn't sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong.
I started as a music director in Punjab and then started singing.
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score.
A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
Lata Mangeshkar is an old friend. I knew her through my father Aparesh Lahiri who was a music director in Calcutta.
Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.
In independent music, you are the badshah and there are no restrictions, which allow you to embrace your true music. Whereas in playback, your first obligation is to your music director and then to your sensibilities.
I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.
Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn't quite make it.
