#conductor

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#being #commitments #composer #conductor #develop

Composers are not all good conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#conductors #good

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#art #conductor #gift #men #musical

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#conductors #deeper #different #hear #itself

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

#being #coach #conductor #director #editor

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#ago #american #conducting #conductor #doing

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

— Nicholas Meyer

#analogous #bit #collaborative #conductor #director

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

#angles #breathe #conductor #expose #flattering

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

#battle #been #conducting #conductors #dominated

Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor. ↗

— Goddard Lieberson

#i #likes #lousy #me #orchestra