Never use a score

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

— Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor

Zographos, Achilleas (2017) Music and Chess. Milford: Russell Enterprises Inc.

Posted

in

by

Greg

Tags:

Featured Content

Modifications of Speed 1
Go to more crosswords
Scores
Brass Brass ensemble Trombone Piano Piano solo Piano method Orchestra and concert band Concert band Strings Cello and piano String ensemble Vocal and choral General Sacred Woodwind Bassoon
Teach Me Your Ways, O Lord – Psalm 24 (25)
Title: Teach me your ways, O Lord Text: Psalm 24 (25):4-9 Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and piano Product medium: PDF score and part Sample:
Schumann on music
As to what concerns the knotty question in general of how far instrumental music may go in the representation of thoughts and events, many are here too anxious in their attitude. We are certainly wrong if we believe that composers set out pen and paper to realize the miserable intention of expressing, describing, or painting […]
A mystery instrument created
Mozart’s Magic Flute uses a glass harmonica or keyed glockenspiel to represent a set of magic bells. “Mozart’s original score for the 1791 opera The Magic Flute called for a glass harmonica or keyed glockenspiel to represent a set of magic bells. The instruments were obscure even in Mozart’s day but more than 200 years after his […]
Brass
Brass ensemble Trombone
Saint-Saëns on the art of music
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colours, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music. — Camille Saint-Saëns Cited in Milton Cross David Ewan, Encyclopedia of Great Composers and Their Music, volume 2. Double Day, 1969, p.819.
The James Bond theme
John Barry did not get the chance to see any footage and he had not read any of Ian Fleming’s books when he was called in to work on the music for the first James Bond film, Dr No (1962), for which Monty Norman had originally been commissioned to write the score.  “I was just […]
Wexford Carol (SATB and organ)
Title: Wexford Carol Text: 12th century Irish Composer: 12th century Irish, arr. Greg Smith Instrumentation: SATB and piano     Related products:     – Wexford Carol – SATB and piano (PDF score) Product medium: PDF score and parts Sample:
Abstraction XVIII
Title: Abstraction XVIIComposer: Greg SmithInstrumentation: PianoPerformer: Greg Smith (October 2023)Product medium: MP3 audio Related products: – Abstraction XVIII (score) Sample: