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America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
~ Anton Seidl
America
Competent
Concert
Development
Disciples
Does
Expense
Free
Gorgeous
Halls
Many
Music
Musical
Need
Pay
Rooms
Scholarships
Schools
Study
Talented
Teachers
Unable
Very
Who
Young
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Composers are not all good conductors.
~ Anton Seidl
Composers
Conductors
Good
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Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
~ Anton Seidl
Anything
Books
Concerning
Conducting
Found
Importance
Might
Much
Real
Scarcely
Subject
Truly
Which
Written
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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.
~ Anton Seidl
Artists
Crude
Devotion
Fact
Feeling
Foreign
German
Heard
Indeed
Made
Often
Serious
Singers
Singing
Statement
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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.
~ Anton Seidl
Action
Apparently
Call
Emphasis
Help
Horn
How
Incident
Insignificant
Learned
Lift
Means
Passage
Picture
Possible
Significance
Simple
Thing
Too
Transform
Violin
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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.
~ Anton Seidl
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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
~ Anton Seidl
Any
Each
Fixed
Nonsense
Particular
Phrase
Simple
Speak
Tempo
Vocal
Voice
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
~ Anton Seidl
America
Art
Conductor
Gift
Men
Musical
Practice
Search
Too
Warrant
Young
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Of course, experience strengthens one later.
~ Anton Seidl
Course
Experience
Later
Strengthens
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The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
~ Anton Seidl
Ability
Been
Conduct
Endowed
Few
Full
Gift
God
Measure
Which
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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
~ Anton Seidl
Been
Composers
Conceived
Conductors
Could
Direct
Had
Interpreting
Longer
Performance
Person
Placed
Responsibility
Spirit
Which
Works
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The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.
~ Anton Seidl
Always
Believed
Composition
Conductor
Does
Found
Gift
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Indeed
More
Much
Seldom
Than
Union
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Anton Seidl
Profession
Celebrity
BirthDate
07 May, 1850
DeathDate
28 March, 1898
Country
Hungary
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