- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Conducting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an American musician means being adventurous.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.
- Performers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conductors are performers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
- Direct Contact
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020