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Neville Marriner
English
Musician
About the author
We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Want
#People
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#American
#Pleasure
#Music
Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Now
#Thinking
#May
#American
#Interest
#Direction
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#English
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Style
#Taste
So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Being
#Society
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Separation
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Play
#Responsibility
One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#American
#Experience
#Music
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Now
#Will
#Years
#Today
#Music
#Composers
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Music
#Opera
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Musicians
#Romantic
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Money
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#People
#Ideas
#Change
I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Routine
But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Time
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.
Neville Marriner,
English
Musician
#Life
#Will
#Quality