Very Often, If I Know The Orchestra Doesn't Know A Piece Or It's A New Piece, I Have Main Ideas About It. But Then We Start To Play And I Never Talk About Places Where They Played So Beautiful And So Clear In The Beginning That There Is Nothing To Say. - SearchQuotes

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Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

Kurt Masur

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