American - Musician | December 9, 1967 -
Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor.
Joshua Bell
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Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.
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The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.
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I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.
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Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.
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It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.
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For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.
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When I do things, like, with Josh Grobin, or he has so many fans, and I get people after my concerts, classical concerts, all the time coming back and saying, 'Never heard of you until I heard the song with Josh Grobin.' Then they're now classical music fans, which is something I think we need to reach a wider audience.
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The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.
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We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.
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People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.
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When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.
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