"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."

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"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Composers are not all good 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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"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."

Action

"The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure."

God

"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."

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

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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

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"Of course, experience strengthens one later."

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