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you can it was very difficult for your you have my sympathy because if you see printed piano and i was gay activists on then another conductor comes in you see exactly what bridget i don't know i'm not speaking personally divide the night in this happens to some point where it's so forgive me but i'm sorry for the spirit of the music and what it feels like a show choir that are in

and in and out mainly opposed to cost investment glamour and magic in the art of symphonic music today at the age of eighty eight just because these two leaders are still ranks as one of the most remarkable men in the world of music is because he never thinks of the time and

probably never will to many of the world's finest orchestras continue to want him for guest appearances because it continues to make recordings here is still a master of the open champion of the new and still doing what he himself describes as his favorite occupation sweating it out with one hundred other musicians at rehearsal the great necessity in a symphonic orchestra news corp that we work together and we call upon other names but it really is cooperation and we like to make the music alone in a rehearsal personally i prefer very hostile to the concerts are serious possibility to try and do better and that a certain moments

me this is the american symphony orchestra in nineteen sixty two and many members of the orchestra auditions casting this fifth avenue and house overlooking manhattan's central park it is here that's a cost he also tends to most of the orchestra's business affairs and presides over a foreign visitor to life it's b it was so slow and the pain and you know all of them are doing it in the hope of doing it in the political season which is central

no no yes i think you're right and i think just the same way that you do so i think that then i say to him do you regret that it will not be possible because we have so many young and deeply also i want to think about what to preserve the bridge which will know too long on the bridge but no image rich you're no but see that out of brooklyn i lick every musical the other

one euro yes or right then i'd like also to think about what the other way north or westchester because it's a waste is that i'm a farmer and i would like to be a musician lewis it as well as a farmer or i think you know as it's an acoustics wanted for organs are the encores ms warren the idea but they are so small i have decided to make a first performance is if you only i just want us to cast his orchestra and understandably nervous young violinist maryland bowl arrives for an audition main ways again

so every day you can protect his one hour and then do something else come back another really concentrate on today is going to be important because it's the first vote than just you you're out of that time just so that i like

and also they took the money and run oh oh oh ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow there's a mention the vibration just went in said that's usually this would usually sit here and decisive vote to survey that we would like to have you and all because he keeps to type daily schedule is now on his way to another part of

manhattan to be honored by the american academy of arts and letters for gold medal for distinguished service to the eye that's because key is to be the first conductor to receive the award is joined by philanthropist son ruben then mrs rubin patrons of the american symphony orchestra and close friends as to cost him his family was thinking that day's theft they see it the rainbow students to the new ways and we often the three of us have conversations and they ask me questions and i asked them questions that they've received life suzanne mcgee says

i understand that sir have their ideas about music and they're quite different and they have their own orchestra it's not a big orchestra like the american symphony orchestra which numbers sometimes as many as a hundred and ten players but they have noticed on the numbers five piece brings so there's that it is the custom of these institutions old traditions die hard on the economy still does not allow photography of its functions in our opinion the world of the artist circles a very special day for the support of its purposes and

activities for the presentation of this award was diverted thompson ah ha we're going to date and in london that i have the other women in the family to present to you eric we have a motto in the american symphony orchestra which is and it would be a good motto for life all over the world today when we are chile instead of knocking three

keys business it's been many many years to come in attendance and more literary celebrities and the average person is likely to meet in her lifetime it's because these days only a short one time is becoming more precious to me does not place to me

you got it or are you seeing together leave that up to get attention it was a smart way to say to close to hear different from carnegie hall says gordon thats good with his different beginning attack i are leaner he's big

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mean all proceeds lives for the piano market these unlikely don't you know violence is market market again it's already marked the market play this novel form oh yes well no

that's the composer until he is so it's to put it on but that we call is that is it somehow division on necessity to try to realize what was in the song i hearing and to make it alive again to get its oil base number five not merely right not someone bought the expression and the creative ideas which the composer this is very difficult sound that one should merely mechanically ridiculous amounts on the paper others think that rahm must

go much farther than that to try to find what the composer is so because our duty is to give to listeners that inspiration that the composer nice be nice or presence would support a pure marketplace and assault peer into the press as the news

well it's better to play and play softly quiet today do you have an outlook on both do you have one can reuse it in this what i think is another quality of two point eight niko the kid so big dopey on everybody as callous you know better you good players to goodness this is your intelligent and you can read

the army is going to want a forty eight hour it is larry summers because it travels line proposed to sixty years you've been making regular trips by ocean left autos because of this the equivalent of two years of his life on the high seas that's

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during the ranks passing through customs is never a difficult scene for stick asking some cases are usually cry with dozens of painstakingly marble customs goes on them carefully studied by the moscow during the five day voyage very low outside london will sell a lot of steel recording engineers make last minute test of their equipment recording just area was a much more intricate technology that mr koskinen his first recording way back in nineteen seventy even before the advent of the longtime is a costly educated himself about the latest engineering methods in the years that

followed experiment constantly to the best in sound reproduction today because he probably knows as much about recording techniques is the meat and the pieces it's because he's been it's been four years it's

bishop is because businesses are huge thank you it's expensive it's beautiful no offense

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hopeful various city the show notes with mr pierron oh that's a forty wins albright says that to be remarkably on these is marking is repealed the pain has been he comes close are we really be a postcard skills more likely to fail a

relief to the number thirteen other natural history gun owners who covers his father was a cabinet maker and so was his grandfather would emigrated from poland today much of the old neighborhood remains as it was in those victorian days but on the side as to cost his birthplace now stands an office building soon after the family moved to the cage wrote in st johns wood to sedate elegant residential section of london many of the city's leading literary figures like the huxley is at aei at aei it's b we

need to put forth even among precocious youngster cosby was exceptional he was only fourteen years of age when i'm eighty ninety six he was admitted to the royal college because i was the youngest student ever accepted usual age was seventeen that same year annual college of music was completed the opening

ceremony was attended by the patron of the college just how long ago at all saints giuseppe verdi was still alive so was brahms and brockmann johann strauss to inventions it's because we would eventually turned to his own uses the phonograph of the movie comes in a generation since the royal college has changed little the us because they spend most astounding days in rue eighty three from the window of this roomy had a full view of the royal albert hall she's quickly realized that one day he would be conducting the conversation it was on this pipe organ that's because he took his first lessons from dr stephen some point other important teacher was dr henry ward for davies

organist in choir master at temple church the picture you know it's a breakup the second on your mind when you do that is to fold col macgregor was a form and

forty two fourteen fifteen through you know what is the whole thing over to nineteen and businesses to become chicken poop i mean he can play the

piano piece be you need to cast his first important job to nineteen oh two when he's a political openness to mustard seed teams to reminisce about those generally does one of the best things that a member about being allowed to stay and listen to the way he played the pattern you know well i think it's not at all the music in me but i can't expect to get the fifty one people were

working on the body why the whole thing i think we all and it didn't fare well no i don't think about voice that's like the absolute they don't go down one day and i thought oh my god the muscle and

the level of that happened and he used to come to our house and have lunch every sunday to say well the only a few street he just that was part of our family and my mother adored him today but we all get a mild especially he had a base off of her idea of all i had a huge hole in it no fires because he accepted an offer to go to america and become organized crime master st bartholomew his church in new york before leaving for new york he wrote the following note to henry war for davies their doctor i'm going to america iou nearly everything and i see you before i go i should say like two in great haste you're grateful still hanging

thanks to pass because it's big the peak to peak week weeks but he says for

nineteen oh no because he took over the reigns of the cincinnati symphony and it was his first orchestra job was then still conducting with a baton instead of the now famous to cost the hands in october nineteen twelve because he moved to the philadelphia orchestra it was hearing the academy of music that you began one of the great conducting careers of the twentieth century he was just thirty years old i was about to introduce to america and you kind of personalized conducting setting a style to prevail for many years he had new ideas about music he presented the works of contemporary composers such as bbc submit yours it was the cost be led the first american performance of

stravinsky's rite of spring and more is monumental symphony number eight with a cast of over one thousand singers and players the annual ideas about what an orchestra should sound like sounds that was the key word is to cost me this was everything soon the philadelphia orchestra began to sound as though they were made out of a hundred or more individual virtuoso is and people began to realize that state house into one of the world's greatest orchestras he also had new ideas about glamour the hall was regenerated and lingo he brought more publicity to growth possible conducting than anyone ever had before by the time he resigned from philadelphia in nineteen thirty eight he was an international celebrity weeklies

both his bishop as big a piece be despite the basis because it's phenomenal career he took time

out to experiment with hollywood and he was starting to one hundred men and a girl thank you how did you manage to continue all the work i do how do you get into places where you should not i don't know that they needed to get i'm sorry but you must leave now you realize how much trouble you've given me i didn't need to really what we wanted to do if you want to have a reason why i have been very lucky enough i certainly will

he also collaborated with walt disney film fantasia a public education many questions he listed cities in nineteen

fifty the american way of doing things we're thinking every spring his orchestra assembles a new york's central park where they scored against the new york philharmonic has always seems to win right

right one of the players is the costly son christopher whose mother is gloria vanderbilt with the process was nice nice this year

that because he's visited by the canadian pianist glenn gould here he interviews to costly for radio feature is producing for the canadian broadcasting corporation questions that you know it's a good question we can do this i'm scott simon maestro i have a recurring dream in

which i dreamed myself into a situation where i'm the first you know and being on another planet if you learn by some political miracle able to go tomorrow to the planet in the solar system where they have to think and creatures who have at the same time never experienced hard and were the first targets were told go ahead in england great artistic system for the aid would you want to go with b what will you do you speak off the solar system i have the impression that there are many solar systems that our sister really big horn but there are others which are much larger and still others which again i have also the impression that not only is that a no space and then this mass all

the solar systems that are in that space but there's been this time is this middleclass lives what is in the small sense in our minds in this novel us we live on that there are great masses of mind of which causes only a small pot so i wrote to my breast to give a clear impression two what other form of life there might be on the planet of what i think is beautiful and orderly what i think is creative and what i think is destructive and that would be possible i hope to let them see what's happening on this bus

so much destruction so little compared with that destruction that is created because many minds who are in what we call more destruction those minds might have enormous creative part is to mcclellan would have it that sooner or later there will be no composing at the latino artist as separate individuals that will be part of one feedback process that the whole idea of the artist as professor gillers professor mitchell well these other fascinating gentleman who lives and tentative that is that the dead flies over the world now as woody has a right to his opinion i see exactly the opposite and i have to write my opinions to their units in canada amid the united states you travel so much in

a while i travel much and so at least we're together as travelers but otherwise i disagree entirely the orgies but what makes him speak that same things that we are returning to again pre renaissance attitude an attitude that existed nowadays with corporate culture for blocks were widely distributed he thinks that we're getting back into it or else face of what makes you think that there were no ports and no artist before a certain period there have always been questions on this earth and just says today's song love duty an order it is quite possible that the so called caveman had such ideas to on his level in his way according to his idea of the best life that we do not know how the caveman this

i do not know how the caveman felt about life but i don't if professor borda says that michael i don't think he knows that i get to work before twenty hours this is unique look

at it here we go who are you likely to post a costly

for years he's been seen and heard by millions of concert goers for years he's championed modern music to improve standards of orchestra playing and kept isn't glamorous and exciting and eighty eight is less flamboyant less theatrical than in years gone by but he still has the most to cast a gift for keeping busy and planning for the future he's just those reasons he's be

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