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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that Boston is one of the great centers of intellectual culture as well as sport. It's one of the centers of America, with a great orchestra, great sports, great hospitals, and great universities.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a dream to be its conductor. Sometimes I think, 'My God, I can't believe it.' It's a dream which came true.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm thankful to Deutsche Grammophon, our partners - we are going to record the complete Shostakovich symphonies and hopefully some other things as well.
- Orchestra
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think music can change your life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It's somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think that the music is the food for our souls.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people will always gossip.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us in the field must remain constantly vigilant and fight against all types of inappropriate and hurtful behavior and continue the essential work of creating a fair and safe work environment for all classical musicians.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great things at Tanglewood. He was the best example of what a conductor should be.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians of the orchestra understand.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings about questions of life and death. It goes absolutely beyond any kind of rules.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can make much better music.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we can.
- Conductor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The music has everything, and you are there to find the balance when you conduct. You don't have to give too much of your individuality. It's Bach, so it's dangerous to get in the way.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood that human beings have to express themselves, through music, even at a bad level. All kids studied music automatically, just as they did maths or languages or sport.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see, in this life, the hardship many suffer. I see the joy that music can give. How we deal with all this is part of a preparation for the next life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents introduced me to Wagner's music very early.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He's such a great poet of music.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel too young in 2018 to take over the Berlin Philharmonic as the successor to Simon Rattle.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.
- Be Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020