Composers are not all good conductors.
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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
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I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.
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They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
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Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
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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.
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I was different from most young conductors today.
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Conductors are performers.
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I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.
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Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
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Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
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Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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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.
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