Original: T«here are only two things requisite so far as the public is concerned for a good performance: that is for the orchestra to begin together and end together; in between it doesn't matter much.»
Fuente: Jolts and Jars: some wit and wisdom by Sir Thomas Beecham", The Listener, 3 de octubre de 1974.
Fuente: Disco "Beecham in Rehearsal", EMI CDM 7 64465 2, 1992.
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Frases célebres de Thomas Beecham
Fuentes, Fuente 1 https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/conductor-insults/beecham-cello-quote/, Top 10 Quotes of Sir Thomas Beecham https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/entertainment/arts/top-10-quotes-of-sir-thomas-beecham/16/07/, Fuente 3 https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,468909,00.html.
Original: Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. Frase dicha a una celista. Está en discusión su veracidad, Fuente 4 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9338524/Beechams-noise-is-always-a-sheer-pleasure-to-hear.html
“Los británicos pueden no apreciarla música, pero aman el ruido que ella hace.”
Fuentes, Fuente 5 https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,468909,00.html
Original: The British may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Thomas Beecham: Frases en inglés
“I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.”
Of the music of Frederick Delius
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
“What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.”
On Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Quoted in Atkins and Newman, Beecham Stories, 1978
“The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.”
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.”
Quoted in Atkins and Newman, Beecham Stories, 1978
“Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.”
Of J. S. Bach; quoted by Neville Cardus, Guardian, 8 March 1971
“The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station”
Of Edward Elgar's 1st symphony
Neville Cardus: Sir Thomas Beecham, A Memoir, (1961)
“Asked if he had ever conducted any Stockhausen, he said, "No, but I once trod in some."”
http://www.paulcarey.net/Quotes.htm http://www.stockhausen.org/licht_by_malcolm_ball.html
“A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.”
Quoted by H. Proctor-Gregg, Beecham Remembered (1976), p. 154
[Beecham admitted to Neville Cardus that he had made this up on the spur of the moment to satisfy an importunate journalist; he acknowledged that it was an oversimplification. (Neville Cardus: 'Sir Thomas Beecham, A Memoir', 1961)]
“If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.”
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
“No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925.”
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
Of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2