#conductor

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

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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

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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding. ↗

— Lara St. John

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The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. ↗

— Riccardo Muti

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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. ↗

— Tori Amos

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The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#ask #atlanta #back #car #conductor

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#conductors #deal #gone #great #great deal