At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.
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Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.Kurt Masur
What I always do, first listen to the orchestra, how they play. You are not starting to teach them from beginning, which is stupid.
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I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.
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This is not to describe my own fate - I am grateful because I survived - but to describe how deeply I am moved by the War Requiem.
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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
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I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.
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I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.
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