Great Throughts Treasury
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George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell
Hungarian-born American Conductor and Composer, remembered as Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra
"Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels the brain."
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. "
"Thank you so much for sending me the tear sheet with your story. As to be expected, it is perceptive and elegant. I must register, however, disagreement with one statement you made: I have not [underlined in red] attained my life’s desire—I should like to play better golf."
"Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience."
"Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience."