Klarinet Archive - Posting 000319.txt from 1995/05

From: Sal Lozano <Solzano@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: getting burned
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 06:37:55 -0400

FAMOUS CONDUCTOR'S COMMENTS

PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA'S
EUGENE ORMANDY

*Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
*I conduct faster so you can see my beat
*Even when you are not playing you're holding me back.
*Start beforty two.
*Did you play? It sounded very good.
*If you don't have it in your part, leave it out
because there is enough missing already.
*Percussion a little louder! (We don't have anything)
That's right a little louder.
*Bizet was a very young man when he wrote this symphony, so play it soft.
*That's the way Stravinsky was--BUP BUP BUP. The poor guy's dead now
so play it soft.
*Serkin was so sick. He almost died for three days.
*(on David Oistrach's death) I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago,
but
unfortunately he lived a year longer.
*This is a very Democratic organization so let's take a vote. All those who
disagree with
me raise their hand.
*Death is a terrible thing. I don't believe in it myself.
*He's a wonderful man---and so is his wife.
*Please follow me. I have to follow him and he isn't even here.
*Without him here it is impossible to know
*I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.
*Beauty is less important than quality.
*Start at B. No Yes No Yes No
*Watch me closely. Only one can spoil it.
*Intonation is very important. Especially when it is cold.
*Congratulations to each and everyone of you for the concert last night in
New York
and vice versa
*I am conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo
*It is not together, but this ensemble is perfect.
*At every concert, I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo.
*The notes are right but if I listened they would be wrong
*I purposely didn't do anything and you were all behind.
*I was trying to help you so I was beating wrong.
*I cannot give it to you so try and watch.
*I conduct better than I count.
*I guess you thought I was conducting but I wasn't
*We can't hear the soloist yet because he is still on the plane.