Conductors are performers.
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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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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
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Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.
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I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
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Electronic Performers
We are the syncronizers
Send messages through time code
Midi clock rings in my mind
Machines gave me some freedom
Synthesizers gave me some wings
They drop me through twelve bit samplers
We are electronic performers
We are electronics
We need to use envelope filters
To say how we feel
Riding on magnetic waves
We search new programs for your pleasure
I want to patch my soul on your brain
Bpm controls yoour heartbeats
We are the syncronizers
We are electronic performers
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Maui Movements
Native performers,
Proud of their rich heritage,
Help traditions live.
Young hula dancers,
Dressed in colorful attire,
Dance with hips and hands.
Gently swaying hips,
Combined with silent language
Of the dancer's hands,
Beckon us to watch
As history comes alive
In Maui movements.
Older performers
Translate every movement --
Help us understand.
Let's understand them
And LEARN, from Maui movements,
How history lives !
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Composers are not all good conductors.
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I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.
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I was different from most young conductors today.
quote by Kurt Masur
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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.
quote by John Barbirolli
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Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
quote by Michael Tippett
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
quote by Leonard Bernstein
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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
quote by George Szell
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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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I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.
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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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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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People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
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