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Kurt Masur Quotes


Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.