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I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
Composers are not all good conductors.
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
Of course, experience strengthens one later.
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.