top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content."
Music
"But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music."
Experience
"If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting."
Music
"But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs."
People
"But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places."
Music
"And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with."
Work
"But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us."
Experience
"Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important."
Life
"But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean."
Architecture
"But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands."
Company
bottom of page