Thomas Beecham (1879 – 1961)
British conductor.
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I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.
What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about."
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
Asked if he had ever conducted any Stockhausen, he said, "No, but I once trod in some."
No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.
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