If you will become possessed of this faith you will not need to bother about your success or failure, for success will come. You will not need to be anxious about the results, and will work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
J. Allen, From Poverty to Power or the Realization of Prosperity and Peace, Chicago: The Science Press, 1906, p. 78.
— James Allen
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Stokowski’s first rehearsal with the Philadelphia Orchestra
On Stokowski’s first rehearsal with the Philadelphia Orchestra: From Oscar Schwar, a fellow faculty member at Curtis who became my friend, I heard the details of Stokowski’s first contact with the orchestra. He would never forget, he said, that Monday morning of October 7, 1912, when an amazingly young and handsome Stokowski, wearing a light […]
Performers and performancesRachmaninoff’s concert routineReporters described Sergei Rachmaninoff on a concert tour (c. 1940): His punctuality is a legend. If a reporter asks for two minutes of his time, two minutes and no more are given. Consequently he arrives at a concert hall on the dot of 8 and goes on the stage precisely at 8:30. If the concert […]
Elegie IITitle: Elegie II Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Cello and piano Product medium: PDF score and part SAMPLE:
Any room for me?“Arthur Rubinstein was standing in the lobby of a concert hall proudly watching the audience filing in to hear one of his recitals. Finally, when the last one had gone in, Rubinstein made a move to enter. An usher blocked his way. ‘Sold out, mister’, he said, and to reinforce his words he pointed to […]
Stokowski as a sound engineerThe conductor Stokowski (who was the conductor of Disney’s Fantasia) was a pioneer of orchestral recording. This was not without its problems: Stokowski was moving more and more toward what is recognized as his most significant achievement – the broadening of popular interest in serious music. He developed a firm conviction that radio, recordings, and […]
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The inner drama of manIt is not what the artist does that counts. But what he is. Cézanne would never have interested me if he had lived and thought like Jaques-Emile Blanche, even if the apple he had painted had been ten times more beautiful. What interests us is the anxiety of Cézanne, the teaching of Cézanne, the anguish […]