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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out... →
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly... →
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... →
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Composers are not all good conductors.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Of course, experience strengthens one later.
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many... →
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... →
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they... →
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