I remember what Bernstein said...
Hi again Ablyth,
I remember what Leonard Bernstein once said, while conducting Mahler's ninth, while we're talking about scores and instructions:
Bernstein:
"I could conduct Mahler's ninth symphony like a machine, if I wanted to! All the very detailed dynamics and articulations are carefully written out there, so if I conduct exactly according to his instructions, like a machine... it will sound perfectly allright!
It's just that I can't do that if I want to be true to myself! I feel that I have to convince the musicians of how I think Mahler would have wanted it to sound like!"
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