Neville Marriner Quotes

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Neville Marriner

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 15, 1924

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

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Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

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This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.

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There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

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Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

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As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

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Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.

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But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

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I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

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I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

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I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

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If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

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Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

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One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

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One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.

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So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

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So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

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So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.

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