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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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.Leonard Bernstein
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
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I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
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