#conductor

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

#conductor #doing #get #mozart #stand

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. ↗

— James Levine

#comes #conductor #deciding #delusion #factor

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. ↗

— James Levine

#big problem #conductors #gesture #i #lot

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#classical #conductor #engineer #i #makes

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. ↗

— George Szell

#choreography #conductors #give #must #orchestra

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#enough #grow #more #more and more #strong

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#before #concert #conductor #deeply #first

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#bring #conductor #enough #i #i always

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#beethoven #conductor #deep #heard #heroic

We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now. ↗

— David Milne

#company #now #number #semiconductor #years