October 24, 1981
October 24, 1981
This is the example we want to give wherever we are: to show that this is not just a forced union, that nobody cuts anybody’s free will; that here everybody does things because it’s really what they feel.
When we do things feeling, knowing the Whole, we can play a melody unknown to all, but, in the parts, known by each one. In the recognition of the parts, it becomes easy. I think this is what we’re doing.
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Yes, I think that a great conductor must play any melody. They can’t be specialized in popular music, or in classic or classical music, or in music from Tau Ceti, or… No! A great conductor is a great conductor. Either they know music, or they don’t know music.
I think that each of us will end up becoming a great conductor, and, with humility, each conductor will put themselves in the position of a note to make it… to draw from it its greatest enchantment, its greatest fascination. And we are going to do this.