“A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?” WholeTakenGenerationsExampleCreationTypeIndustryWorkersProfessionComposerVeteranAcademyMusic IndustrySubversiveDocileDowntrodden Author:Itay Talgam
“Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.” MadeReasonWholeEffortExistenceAudienceHumbleChiefsComposerRequirementsGlamorousBe HumbleConductor Author:Leonard Bernstein