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Neville Marriner [1924-0] English

Rank: 102
Musician, Violinist

Sir Neville Marriner, CH, CBE was an English violinist who became "one of the world's greatest conductors". He founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and his partnership with them is the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor.

Romantic

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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.		101
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.		102
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.		103
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.		104
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.		105
We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.		106
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.		107
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.		108
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.		109
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.		110
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.		111
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.		112
Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.		113
But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.		114
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.		115
I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.		116
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.		117
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.	Romantic	118
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.		119
One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.		120
So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.		121
This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.		122

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