Томас Бичем цитаты
Томас Бичем
Дата рождения: 29. Апрель 1879
Дата смерти: 8. Март 1961
То́мас Би́чем — британский дирижёр, оперный и балетный импресарио.
Цитаты Томас Бичем
„No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925.“
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
„The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.“
Quoted in Atkins and Newman, Beecham Stories, 1978
„Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.“
Of J. S. Bach; quoted by Neville Cardus, Guardian, 8 March 1971
„A city life for me!“
Of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
„The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station“
Of Edward Elgar's 1st symphony
Neville Cardus: Sir Thomas Beecham, A Memoir, (1961)
„Asked if he had ever conducted any Stockhausen, he said, "No, but I once trod in some."“
http://www.paulcarey.net/Quotes.htm http://www.stockhausen.org/licht_by_malcolm_ball.html
„A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.“
Quoted by H. Proctor-Gregg, Beecham Remembered (1976), p. 154
„Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.“
[Beecham admitted to Neville Cardus that he had made this up on the spur of the moment to satisfy an importunate journalist; he acknowledged that it was an oversimplification. (Neville Cardus: 'Sir Thomas Beecham, A Memoir', 1961)]
„If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.“
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
„The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.“
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
„I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.“
Of the music of Frederick Delius
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
„What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.“
On Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Quoted in Atkins and Newman, Beecham Stories, 1978
