“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.” LittlesDifferentNightFallBitsWeekParticularNormalLittle BitMusicianPerformancesPatternsSchedulesRehearsalDay And NightConductorDifferent Day Author:Leonard Slatkin
“Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.” MenDoeHas BeensHeardMastersEqualMusicianExtraordinaryGreat MenComposerImpressedGreat MusicStatureConductorGreat MusicianCellists Author:Albert Schweitzer
“The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the conductor listens well, the musicians listen each other better. The conductor can in effect impose a certain kind of listening for everybody.” IfsWayWellsKindImportantCertainSoundEffectsListeningMusicianImportant ThingsConductor Author:Laurence Equilbey
“Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.” ThinkingIdeasPlayCharacterHappensTogetherGroupsStrangeMusicianMannersNo IdeaSolitaryConductor Author:Colum McCann
“I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.” RealYoungStuffGroupsMusicianStartingComposerNot InterestedConductorFinland Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.” StillsAmericaPoliticalHateSituationEnemyEnvironmentProudMembersMusicianConnectionsI HateManagementConcertsOrchestraConductor Author:Neeme Jarvi
“The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.” FrontsMusicianIncrediblesHallsOverwhelmingIntensityConductor Author:Idina Menzel