I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.Leonard Bernstein
Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
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That was a wild crowd.
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In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
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