"I have one idea about this whole interpretation problem as it relates to orchestral music — too many of our conductors start with old music. What they should do is interpret the music of our time and then go backwards. They would be much better off because if you interpret a contemporary work, where the composer is still alive and have contact with the compositional mind, you will also play older music as looked at from the perspective of the composer, instead of an interpretive kind of idea. I hate the performer that says, “Did you ever hear my Beethoven?” I don’t want to hear his Beethoven! I want to hear Beethoven."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Composers from the United StatesAcademics from the United StatesConductors from the United StatesViolinists from the United StatesSongwriters from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Samuel Adler, Quoted from a radio interview with Bruce Duffie in Chicago on WNIB, (1992).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adler
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Samuel Adler
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Samuel Adler →
Related Quotes
"At present...I feel that my works require a modified serial technique, but it is a very unorthodox one, and almost ne…"
"I don’t understand any music! I feel it. I want them to feel something! I don’t want them to understand it. If I want…"
"To me, the wonderful thing about music is a love affair between the performer and the composer, and between the compo…"
"Too much emphasis is placed upon the technical aspect of contemporary music and not enough on its communicative and a…"
"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."
"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"
"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"
"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"
"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"
"When Hector heard that challenge he rejoiced and right in the no man's land along his lines he strode, gripping his s…"