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# Samuel Adler

Samuel Adler (born March 4, 1928, in Mannheim, Germany) is a leading American conductor, composer, author, lecturer and violinist who has served for decades on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music and the Juillard School of Music

## Quotes

* I have one idea about this whole interpretation problem as it relates to orchestral music — too many of our conductors start with old music. What they should do is interpret the music of our time and then go backwards. They would be much better off because if you interpret a contemporary work, where the composer is still alive and have contact with the compositional mind, you will also play older music as looked at from the perspective of the composer, instead of an interpretive kind of idea. I hate the performer that says, “Did you ever hear my Beethoven?” I don’t want to hear his Beethoven! I want to hear Beethoven.
** Samuel Adler, Quoted from a radio interview with Bruce Duffie in Chicago on WNIB, (1992).
* To me, the wonderful thing about music is a love affair between the performer and the composer, and between the composer and his audience. This love affair is a tripartite thing.
** Samuel Adler, Quoted from a radio interview with Bruce Duffie in Chicago on WNIB, (1992)
* I don’t understand any music! I feel it. I want them to feel something! I don’t want them to understand it. If I wanted them to understand exactly what I meant, I can write an essay! I’ve written a lot of speeches and essays and articles and everything else, but I don’t want that! I don’t want a particular thing; I want them to let themselves go and feel something they’ve never felt before. That’s all. That’s what a concert is — not a pleasurable experience; it is an experience of life-changing dimensions!
** Samuel Adler, Quoted from a radio interview with Bruce Duffie in Chicago on WNIB .

## External links

* Radio interview with Samuel Adler by Bruce Duffie for WNIB's "Classical 97" program on January 21, 1991
* Samuel Hans Adler Papers archived at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester
* Samuel Adler - Composer- Web Archive at The United States Library of Congress.
* The Synagogue Music of Samuel Adler Collection at the Milken Archive of Jewish Music.
* Samuel Adler - photographs at the Milken Archive of Jewish Music
# Brian Tyler

Brian Theodore Tyler (born May 8, 1972, in Orange County, California) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, producer, musician, and songwriter.

## Quotes

* My background in music came from me playing drums and piano as a young child. My grandmother was a pianist and I was influenced by her and my parents were playing rock records which influenced my drumming. I was a fan of film scores, rock, classical, jazz, and hip-hop in my early years and tried to learn as much about each of those genres as possible. I began writing music in a serious way in my teen years while I was playing in various bands and orchestras.
** Interview with Brian Tyler (December 5, 2012)
* I have an inner gage when I feel it’s too much, then I just don’t do a particular film. I’m lucky that I get more offers than I can possibly take. But I always want the phone to be ringing, because I want to do this for the rest of my life. I don’t plan on slowing down, but I certainly have to say “no” more and more. I consider myself very lucky to make a living at this. It’s almost bizarre for any musician to turn down work as much as they to have to keep themselves sane. I know what my limit is. And I keep myself at that limit.
** Interview with Brian Tyler (August 6, 2014)

## External links

* Official website
# Murray Perahia

Murray Perahia (born April 19, 1947, in New York City) is an American concert pianist and conductor.

## Quotes
### Jewish Chronicle interview (8 February 2008)

* I sat reading in these chairs and felt somehow, in an abstract rather than a religious way, that suffering shapes you. Not only my own religious thought, but that of my ancestors, affected me in some way. The thing we have as Jews is that it’s a wonderfully abstract religion. Images are not allowed, so it’s welcome to abstract thought.
* I wouldn’t play it in public — you need different muscles, you can’t use the upper arm, just the fingers. But the sound has a glow, because the strings aren’t damped, as on a piano. I wanted to visit Bach’s sound world, then apply those ideas to the piano.
** Of playing the harpsichord.
* In the Bronx, we had three synagogues on one block at 161st Street. My father was Orthodox and we went to the Sephardi one. Further along was the Conservative, the biggest. In between was the Ashkenazi shul. And guess who was their shabbos goy? Colin Powell!
* I’m deeply grateful to be Jewish. I feel it’s enriched my life and I feel very strongly about Jewishness.
# Howard Shore

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian composer and conductor.

## Quotes

* I like to read a lot. I like the printed word. I find that structure–of words and sentences and paragraphs and chapters–a very good structure for writing music. Music also has a very linear quality on the page, of those five parallel lines and the bar structure of music. I start on projects always by reading.
** Interview with Brilliant Composer Howard Shore (February 16, 2005)
* I’m close to nature, and I draw a lot inspiration from nature. And I think my connection to Tolkien was also through nature. I think that’s how I made that connection to his writing: the love of everything green and good.
** INTERVIEW: Howard Shore (April 27, 2018)

## External links

* Official website
# Ryan Shore

Ryan Shore (born December 29, 1974, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, songwriter, conductor, and music director.

## Quotes

* Most simply put, emotions are what influence me the most. I start with a feeling, which could be a feeling of the piece I’d like to write, or the feeling I have for a movie or scene I’m scoring, and then I begin to try to translate that feeling into music. Once I can get the music to give me the same feeling I have by listening to it, then I feel like I’m headed in the right direction and I begin to hone it from there.
** Ryan Shore (February 10, 2012)
* Every piece of music in a way, is like a child, this thing that I’ve given birth to. Every single piece of music that I’ve written, I remember every thing about it. I remember the decisions that I made when I was writing it, and how it was recorded and mixed, and what I’d do different. Every piece becomes personal.
** Interview: Ryan Shore Discusses Composing, Influences (March 19, 2016)

## External links

* Official website
# Howard Blake

Howard David Blake (born October 28, 1938, in London) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist.

## Quotes

* I am a composer. I am not a songwriter. Because the musical world has been so massively hijacked by big business we tend to see the single pop song as the all-important unit. But there is so much more to music than that, and while I have always taken a wide interest in every sort of music whatever its origins, the wonderful possibilities of extended music, of concertos and symphonies and opera and ballet and film and instrumental music in all its myriad forms - this is what I am interested in and what I both listen to and continually attempt to create.
** Howard Blake tells The Snowman story (16 December 2011)

## External links

* Official website
# Anne Dudley

Anne Jennifer Dudley (born May 7, 1956, in Beckenham, Kent) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician.

## Quotes

* With a comedy, you can easily take away the humor. So it’s very important to keep the pacing of it going, and to keep the lighthearted nature of it going. I think in many ways, a comedy is more difficult than drama
** “The Hustle” Composer Anne Dudley On Her Creative Process And Storytelling Through Music: BUST Interview (2019)

## External links

* Official website
# Jason Graves

Jason Graves (born 1973) is an American television, film, and video game music composer.

## Quotes

* My favorite aspect about horror music is you can literally write anything you want. You are limited only by your imagination! In fact, many times the more unique and completely original your music is, the better it works in the game and the more the developer loves it.
** Exclusive Interview: Composer Jason Graves Discusses Dead Space, F.E.A.R. 3 and Resistance: Burning Skies (May 14, 2012)
* I think any composer is the sum of their life experience, and that's what makes each of them interesting and different.
** Interview: The Man Behind the Music - Jason Graves (May 16, 2015)
* When I'm watching a scary movie and there's a shadow or a flicker under the bed, that's scary because the unknown is so much scarier than when, two-thirds of the way through the movie, it's revealed that it's a guy in a mask. Once it becomes tangible and fixed in your mind's eye, it becomes a lot less scary to me and I think music is the same way. If you don't recognize that sound, your brain immediately tells you to run away. It's the shark fin in the water, it's hearing the music and then maybe you see a fin, it's all about the build up to the 'boo' itself and that has been my entire philosophy about horror music from the beginning – how unrecognizable is it going to be?
** Doom, Dead Space & Alien-Isolation Composers Explain How To Create Horror Video Game Scores (August 2, 2018)

## External links

* Official website
# Paolo Buonvino

Paolo Buonvino (born March 29, 1968, in Scordia, Sicily) is an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger.

## Quotes

* The musician who has a picture in front of him has an interpretative funnel and must be careful what happens in the history and images. The other thing is the viewer’s attention. When they are on TV they can easily switch channel. This requires put both the assembly of the story and how the story is told, captures the viewer’s attention constantly.
** MUSIC SPECIAL: PAOLO BUONVINO SPEAKS (22 February 2014)

## External links

* Official website
# Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta (Hindi: ज़ुबिन मेहता; pronounced [ˈzuːbɪn ˈmeːɦt̪aː]; born April 29, 1936, in Bombay) is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

## Quotes

* Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.
** In Jack Benny: an Intimate Biography (Irving Fein) Volume 2 (1976) page 154.
* I feel very friendly towards your country, but make no mistake I will always be an Indian first.
** Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology..

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Zubin Mehta on Wikipedia
* Media related to Zubin Mehta on Wikimedia Commons
# James MacMillan

Sir James Loy MacMillan (born July 16, 1959, in Kilwinning) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.

## Quotes

* Composers have to be schooled in a deep-seated tradition and learn skills that go back not just generations but centuries. So, you find that even the most thrusting, cutting-edge modernists have a deep knowledge of musical history, and a respect for musical history, and indeed the values and worlds that produced those traditions, including religion. That kind of culture-war stuff that you get sometimes in the other arts just doesn’t really appear in the world of music, because there’s this deep knowledge, respect, understanding, and learning about the art of music. For that reason, you find lots of composers who are all over the place politically, but on many things you could say that they are conserving an ancient craft, an ancient tradition. They’re deeply plugged into the roots and in ways that sometimes other artists and other media are not.
** Scotland, Suffering, and Silence: An Interview with Sir James MacMillan (August 30, 2019)

## External links

Encyclopedic article on James MacMillan on Wikipedia
# Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)

Sonic the Hedgehog (commonly referred to as Sonic '06) is a 2006 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. It was produced in commemoration of the Sonic the Hedgehog series' 15th anniversary and as a reboot for seventh-generation video game consoles. Players control Sonic, Shadow, and the new character Silver, who battle Solaris, an ancient evil pursued by Doctor Eggman. Each playable character has his own campaign and abilities, and must complete levels, explore hub worlds and fight bosses to advance the story. In multiplayer modes, players can work cooperatively to collect Chaos Emeralds or race to the end of a level.

## Quotes about Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)

* Sonic the Hedgehog may share its name with the Genesis original, but this game is even more broken than most of the other recent Sonic games have been. [...] Only the most blindly reverent Sonic the Hedgehog fan could possibly squeeze any enjoyment out of Sega's latest adventure. This platformer is a mess from top to bottom, and any of the occasional moments that don't feel somehow broken only serve to make the game's other flaws appear that much bigger.
** Jeff Gerstmann of Gamespot in November 2006
* The 2006 Sonic game was meant to be something of a soft reboot for the franchise, telling an entirely new story, albeit with the same characters, in a new location. The story is vast, expanding the universe, introducing plenty of brand-new characters, telling the tale of a race to stop a dark god from consuming time itself; unfortunately, that doesn't save it from being an underwhelming installment in the franchise. After all, half of the plot is about saving a princess from Dr. Eggman over and over again, and the other half is a poorly paced mess of confusing timelines and underwritten characters.
** Holden Sasaki of Screen Rant in October 2024
# Shoegaze

Shoegaze (originally called shoegazing and sometimes conflated with "dream pop") is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock characterized by its ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume. It emerged in Ireland and the United Kingdom in the late 1980s among neo-psychedelic groups who usually stood motionless during live performances in a detached, non-confrontational state. The name comes from the heavy use of effects pedals, as the performers were often looking down at their pedals during concerts.

## Quotes about Shoegaze

* A number of critics claim to have coined the term back in the 1990s, including Andy Ross and Moose magazine, but they didn’t invent the music itself. The origins of the genre may depend on how strict your definition of shoegaze music is. Before the genre experienced a full-blown boom in the 1990s, albeit overshadowed by the giants of Britpop and grunge, a number of artists showed shoegaze leanings in their sound.
** Elle Palmer of Far Out
* The original, early-’90s era of shoegaze took to the EP like ducks to water. Not to generalize but shoegaze bands tended to favor extended instrumental sections allowing them to bliss out on a riff, or even just a chord. A whole album of that might prove taxing for some, but with an EP, the indulgence is more digestible and the best groups’ EPs offered up a “hit,” a song where they really let go, and made room to experiment too. With acid house, the Manchester scene and grunge all happening at the same time, there was a lot of sonic osmosis going on.
** Bill Pearis of Brooklyn Vegan
* This unique genre is known for creating dreamy atmospheres with sound, obscure vocals, feedback, distortion, and amped-up volume.
** Em Casalena of American Songwriter
* Emerging in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s, shoegaze was Britain’s answer to America’s emerging grunge craze. [...] Obtaining the classic “shoegaze” sound requires the use of effect pedals to capture its spiraling complexity.
** Miguel Gonzales of Daily Free Press
# Extended play

An extended play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 15 to 30 minutes. An EP is usually less cohesive than an album and more "non-committal".

## About

* The EP, short for extended play, is more than a single but less than an album. The format really came into its own in the late-’70s/early-’80s with punk, post-punk and independent labels, offering an affordable sampler for new and exciting music.
** Elle Palmer of Far Out
# Rodan (band)

Rodan was an American post-hardcore band from Louisville, Kentucky. The best known lineup of the band consisted of Jeff Mueller (guitar/vocals), Jason Noble (guitar/vocals), Tara Jane O'Neil (bass/vocals), and Kevin Coultas (drums).

## Quotes about Rodan

* Rodan is one of the most underrated post-hardcore bands to come out of the 90s.
** Em Casalena of American Songwriter
# Black Flag (band)

Black Flag is an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. Initially called Panic, the band was established by Greg Ginn, the guitarist, primary songwriter, and sole continuous member, and singer Keith Morris. They are widely considered to be one of the first hardcore punk bands, as well as one of the pioneers of post-hardcore.

## Quotes about Black Flag

* It’s nearly impossible to guess how the alternative rock boom of the ’90s would’ve sounded without the direct influence and ripple effect of My War.
** Andrew Sacher of Brooklyn Vegan
# Willy Ngumbi Ngengele

Willy Ngumbi Ngengele (13 February 1965) is a prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Goma.

## Quotes

* As Bishops we do not propose any candidate. We allow Christians to choose to make their choice in freedom of mind and conscience. The elections are a tool to have a democratic alternation to bring about change.
** Fears are being accentuated over the vote of the 23rd December (17 December 2018) Fides News Agency
# Witchfinder General (band)

Witchfinder General was an English heavy metal band from Stourbridge. They were part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene and have been cited as a major influence on the doom metal genre. They were named after the 1968 British horror film Witchfinder General.

## Song lyrics
### Death Penalty (1982)

* Turn to drugs to free my mind Just to see what I would find Tabs are great, now ask the drummer Smack my friend is just a bummer
** “Free Country,” as quoted by Tom Campagna of Loudwire

## Quotes about Witchfinder General

* As bands like Motörhead, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden sharpened metal’s edge, ramped up the speed or took it to epic new places, Witchfinder General maintained a Sabbathy groove in the new age, thanks to guitarist Phil Cope.
** Nick Ruskell of Kerrang!
* Doom is not often a genre associated with youthful exuberance but when a band like Witchfinder General are playing it, it sure seems like a blast.
** Tom Campagna of Loudwire
# Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics are intended to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath, who formed a prototype for doom metal. During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands such as Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar from England, American bands Pentagram, Saint Vitus, the Obsessed, Trouble, and Cirith Ungol, and Swedish band Candlemass defined doom metal as a distinct genre. Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Trouble and Candlemass have been referred to as "the Big Four of Doom Metal".

## Quotes about doom metal

* From the "scary music" idea Sabbath had in 1970, through to bands who took that idea and really ran with it, to funereal dirges and explorations of doom where it feels like you're on a different planet to Sabbath altogether, doom is a genre as wide as it is long. Often a truly underground thing full of lost relics and hidden gems, the influence of doom metal stretches far further than its small success stories suggest.
** Nick Ruskell of Kerrang!
# Jus Oborn

Justin Oborn, better known by his stage name Jus Oborn (born 30 October 1971) is a British musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist and lyricist of Electric Wizard, an English doom metal band from Dorset, which Oborn co-founded in 1993. Prior to forming Electric Wizard, he was a member of doom metal band Lord of Putrefaction, which changed its name to Thy Grief Eternal and then to Eternal.

## Quotes

* [In 2000], we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw, bass] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage, then slipped, fell off through the window and sliced his arm open. He got community service for that. Then Mark [Greening, drums] got nicked for robbing an offie. He smashed the window, nicked a bottle of whiskey, then sat there drinking it outside! We weren't very nice people, to be honest. We were feeding off that shit at the time. It made us feel like we were more of a heavy metal band.
** As quoted by Nick Ruksell of Kerrang!
# Alex Skolnick

Alex Skolnick (born September 29, 1968) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist and one of the songwriters of the thrash metal band Testament and has played with several other bands, including The Alex Skolnick Trio, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Savatage and the heavy metal supergroup Metal Allegiance.

## Quotes

* My parents were academics and not thrilled about me joining a thrash metal band. They were older than most of my friends’ parents so didn’t even have that rock’n’roll background. Their wishes for me were to get a PhD, just like them. There were a few points that convinced them I hadn’t made a terrible choice, though. The first was when Testament supported Judas Priest at the Oakland Coliseum [in 1990], which showed that this was more than just a neighbourhood band. They were also happy when I started writing columns for guitar magazines, because they always respected writing.
** Interviewed by Paul Travers of Metal Hammer in February 2025
# Dionisio Lachovicz

Dionisio Paulo Lachovicz (2 July 1946–) is a Brazilian-born Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch.

## Quotes

* To make peace requires courage, much more so than to make war. Courage to say yes to encounter and no to conflict; yes to dialogue and no to violence; yes to negotiation and no to hostility, yes to the observance of pacts and no to provocations; yes to sincerity and no to duplicity
** Greek Catholics face hostility amid unrest in Ukraine (August 29, 2014)
# Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont

Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (26 October 1945 –) is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Cayenne.

## Quotes

* I can testify to the fertility of the Word among the small and the humble.
** Catholics should become ‘lovers of the Word,' bishops’ synod says (9 October 2008)
# Gregory III Laham

Gregory III Laham (15 December 1933 –) is a Syrian prelate of the Melkite Catholic Church who served as the Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch.

## Quotes

* The war in Iraq and the situation in the Holy Land are mortal blows for the Christians in the Middle East. Willing or unwilling, we end up being branded as a fifth column of the West. But the strength of fundamentalism lies in the weakness of the so-called Christian West. Fundamentalism is a sickness that gets loose and takes root because of the void of the Western modernity, that uses Christianity only as ideological cover
** We are the Church of Islam (2005) 30 Days