The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they ha….

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities..

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift..

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure..

Of course, experience strengthens one later..

Composers are not all good conductors..

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, f….

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed..

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books..

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious ….

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident,….