Archive for the 'Conductors' Category

“I never use a score when conducting my orchestra… Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?”
– Dimitri Mitropolous

“After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won’t let any of you enter.”
–Arturo Toscanini to the NBC Orchestra

“He has an enormously wide repertory. He can conduct anything, provided it’s by Beethoven, Brahms or Wagner. He tried Debussy’s La Mer once. It came out as Das Merde.”
–Anonymous Orchestra Member on George Szell

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