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Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
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Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.
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We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
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Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
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One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
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So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
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So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.
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If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
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But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.
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There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
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If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
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I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
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