Community Quote by Desmond Tutu

The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will go well.

— Giuseppe Sinopoli

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that…

— James Levine

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

— Anonymous

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned,…

— Peter Brook

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have…

— Joshua Bell

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they…

— Anton Seidl

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

— Kurt Masur

“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the…

— Sol Stein

Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it…

— Paul Hindemith

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you…

— Ruggiero Ricci

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The conductor of the orchestra doesn’t make a sound. His power comes from awakening possibility in others. —Benjamin Zander, conductor and coauthor of The…

— Malcolm Harkins