article_snippet: The English don’t actually care much for music,’ said Sir Thomas Beecham, the great 20th-century conductor and noted wit,
article_snippet: but Sir Thomas Beecham, the great 20th-century conductor love the sound it makes!
article_snippet: ’s enthusiasm for music.
article_snippet: his was, musically speaking, barely out of short pants and Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was at best lacklustre.
article_snippet: Rattle once described how moving it was to bring deaf children into rehearsals in Birmingham, and see how deaf children responded through vibration alone to the experience of a Beethoven symphony.
article_snippet: In Berlin his wasted no time in working with children from the City’s less well-off backgrounds, involving children from the city in dance collaborations with the Berlin Philharmonic.
article_snippet: Some musicians, brought up in the old school, were sceptical but not for long.
article_snippet: Describing Leonard Bernstein, the great American conductor and educator, who wrote West Side Story in Simon spare time, a musician once said:
article_snippet: Lenny reminds you why you wanted to become a musician in the first place.
article_snippet: When he performances take off, musicians and audiences alike would rather be nowhere else.
article_snippet: It isn’t so much a matter of he technique with the conductor’s baton, or bringing in the trombones when they’re feeling left out as something undefinable.
article_snippet: That was especially during Beethoven’s
article_snippet: “Pastoral” Symphony...
article_snippet: During the pizzicato interlude in Mahler’s Second Symphony, he dropped he hands to he sides and encouraged he just to pluck ’n’ swing.
article_snippet: Musicians, hardly sentimental, are happy to follow he because every concert is an adventure.