Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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14 published records
01 / belief
“The original New York sessions without the big band — that’s the greatest pop album ever made, in my opinion.”
02 / uncertainty
“When that opportunity came my way, I was reluctant to do it. And Leon talked me into moving to New York and taking the job, so he had a huge effect on my early career, but what he saw in this 23-year-old kid, [laughs] I don’t know.”
03 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if I could put a percentage on it, but there are certainly quite a few people who go out of a sense of obligation.”
04 / belief
“If there are so many figures in the history of classical music who are doing truly first-rate conducting, maybe at the age of 80, or at least the late 70s — Stokowski, I think, kept on going until 95.”
05 / evaluation
“He’s one of them. I love Feldman’s music. And Feldman did something really remarkable, where he took this modernist vocabulary, the vocabulary of Schoenberg, the second Viennese School atonality, and then John Cage, the student of Schoenberg, brought that vocabulary into the world of .”
06 / evaluation
“There’s all kinds of problems with Lars von Trier because of his attitudes on various subjects, so it probably wouldn’t have been the ideal choice for Bayreuth at the moment.”
07 / recommendation
“I think music critics need to have command of neighboring cultural areas because music is just not separate from the rest of culture, from the rest of our world.”
08 / evaluation
“He was a master of publicity and branding and all these modern techniques, and he knew that pulling the music of the “Ride of the Valkyries” out of Die Walküre would spread his fame because that piece had an electrifying effect on audiences from the moment it was first heard.”
09 / preference
“The White Album — I love the White Album especially, I think. “A Day in the Life” is one of their most extraordinary achievements.”
10 / prediction
“Wagner isn’t to blame for any of this. And just because classical music no longer has anything like the role that it once had on the world stage in culture today, I just don’t think you’re going to see some kind of new Hitler arising, enthused by Wagner and unleashing terror on the world.”
11 / commitment
“I’m building pages on my website, which are a kind of guide to Wagner’s works beyond what I do in the book. And so I’m going to be recommending recordings, as well as giving the synopsis of the plot of the operas and pointing out crucial musical moments.”
12 / evaluation
“With Wagner, you never leave reality, and everything sublime and magnificent and moving in Wagner is inseparable from this corruption, this darkness, this evil. And I think that makes him a very human, unfortunately, exemplary human phenomenon, where the greatness and the darkness are all mixed together because that’s who we are as a species.”
13 / evaluation
“Those same Austrian and German audiences may be quite resistant to 20th-century music and contemporary music because they love and know Brahms so well.”
14 / evaluation
“Just because of the fear of travel at this moment and other questions about the wastefulness of this kind of travel, that may be cut back. And I think that could be a very healthy thing if conductors just spent more of their time with their orchestra that they are the music director of instead of feeling the need to guest conduct in 10 other places during a given season because they’re being paid usually pretty hefty sums of money, $800,000 or a million dollars or more.”