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You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

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I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

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I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

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There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

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Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

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It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

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Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

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When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

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I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

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As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 24th, 1943

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