"We have four trombones and a tuba, six, seven,
eight horns, and four trumpets. That section could kill any
string section, even as great as I have in Philadelphia, if
they blow their real fortissimo as the composer asked for.
You always have to balance"
- Eugene Ormandy -
in "Conductors in Conversation"
edited by Robert Chesterman
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