Leonard Bernstein Quote

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.


The Cambridge Companion to Conducting p. 16.


Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the...

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the...

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the...

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the...