The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.
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I come to a performance of music that I know very well as if I were performing it for the first time. Every day is a new day, a new experience. This is the way I approach a masterpiece. A masterpiece can never age - it's only the people who perform it or listen to it who become insensitive to it. If you come with a fresh feeling toward a masterpiece, it will always feel fresh and give you the benefit of its genius.Lorin Maazel
You encourage, you push and pull. You look out at your colleagues and say, 'Yes, you can.' To bring performers past the limitations of their own potential is leadership. All fine leaders conducting from the podium have that. Emotion is what it's all about
Lorin Maazel
An interpreter brings to life music in the form that it is given to him, that is, a constellation of black spots on a page. But if the interpreter doesn't identify with the music and can't be one with it, then no number of directions from the composer will be of any help.
Lorin Maazel
Art rises above and beyond the issues of the day. It reunites what has been rent asunder, not along national or religious lines, but along individual, human ones. It heals, redefines goals, and strengthens the resolve to move on, to rebuild, to reconstruct. However obtuse human behavior is in other arenas, art, if not suborned, can clarify, put into perspective and re-inspire.
Lorin Maazel
So whether you're devoted to the classical standards, crave something new, or look to deepen your understanding of a new work or an old favorite, the Philharmonic has your ticket to excitement The concert hall, ... is a place for controversy, for people who will stand up and scream 'We hate it' and people who will stand up and scream 'We love it' A major orchestra has to put forth the great masterpieces that have stirred, and continue to stir, assent and dissent.
Lorin Maazel
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