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Thomas Beecham

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.


— Thomas Beecham


#english #like #love #makes #may

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.


— Thomas Beecham


#damn #finish #give #goes #golden

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.


— Thomas Beecham


#arts #gigantic #men #racket #run

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.


— Thomas Beecham


#ear #facility #great #great music #leaves

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.


— Thomas Beecham


#man #music #musicologist #read #who

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.


— Thomas Beecham


#bands #brass #miles #outdoors #place

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.


— Thomas Beecham


#errand #should #tunes #whistle #write

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.


— Thomas Beecham


#formed #i #just #opinion #poor

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.


— Thomas Beecham


#more #movie #music #noise #painful

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.


— Thomas Beecham


#enough #me #operatic #soon #star






About Thomas Beecham

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Did you know about Thomas Beecham?

For the Columbia label Beecham recorded his last or only versions of many works by Delius including A Mass of Life Appalachia North Country Sketches An Arabesque Paris and Eventyr. Beecham married Betty in 1943 and they were a devoted couple until her death in 1958. During the First World War Beecham strove often without a fee to keep music alive in London Liverpool Manchester and other British cities.

After his return to Britain he founded the Royal Philharmonic in 1946 and conducted it until his death in 1961. Other composers with whose music he was frequently associated were Haydn Schubert Sibelius and the composer he revered above all others Mozart. Born to a rich industrial family Beecham began his career as a conductor in 1899.

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