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Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.


Michael Tilson Thomas


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The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.


Nicholas Meyer


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The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.


Charles Munch


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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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Conductors are performers.


Michael Tilson Thomas


#performers

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.


Carter Burwell


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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


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I suspect every conductor was once an air traffic controller, but the catastrophe was so terrible that they never speak of it.


Bauvard


#conductor #funny #humor #jobs #funny

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.


Ralph Merkle


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Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?


John Philip Sousa


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