Véronique Gens

19 July, 2023

"What makes you think it's very good music also, is that it's only hits, and when you listen to this music, it stays, it remains in your head for hours, turning around in your head."

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Ying Fang / Karen Cargill

"Even if you're not a spiritual person, I think it makes you have one of those moments where you ask yourself the questions of what lies beyond, and who we are, and why we're here. "

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Sharleen Joynt

18 July, 2023

"All I can do is sing my best, and earn my jobs. Enough years have gone by now that I don't think it matters. I continue to just work my butt off, and I believe in that it's some sort of meritocracy, and that I can just earn the work that I get."

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Aurore Ugolin

"This is the magic for music and arts. Sometimes when musicians or painters are pushing the lines, that’s what makes the thing interesting and brings emotion. Even though it's anger, even though you want to scream. But it creates something, you feel things. "

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Anne Sofie von Otter

13 July, 2023

"I think composers are feeling much more free, and they take inspiration from other fields, not only jazz and maybe pop, but also other not westernized music, Asian, African, so we get this sort of mix that's very attractive."

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Edita Gruberova

“I love it very much. This is my life. When I sing this music, it gives me so much joy, and I can give something to public in this music.”

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Eleanor Harries Clarke (Founding Member of Stile Antico)

5 July, 2023

“The way we approach it is that we're very interested in the history of the time in the context, and why they were writing these pieces. But we are also very keen that our music is a performance here and now. We're not a museum, so we really like to be informed by the history of music, but we're not bound by it.”

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Dawn Upshaw

27 June, 2023

“I want Tanglewood to be able to support their imaginations and their visions, and to try to give them opportunities to do all kinds of music and to perform in different ensembles. That is a summer of projects that are built around their own unique gifts.”

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Ruby Hughes

“There is something I relate to in the way he writes melody, and the way he identifies with text, and emotion, and music, and his rhythmic and harmonic language does something to me. ”

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Aleksandra Kurzak

20 June, 2023

“It was 1999, on the 26th of May, which is the Mother's Day in Poland. So it was an incredible gift, and we sang this performance together. It was really amazing. But my mother was, of course, more nervous about it. I can imagine now that I'm a mother and I have a daughter what emotions she had!”

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