I suggest that there are no American symphony conductors, Leonard Bernstein having grown up in his early years at least in Vienna, that an American conductor, no matter how much he knows about orchestras or publics, is not able to dramatize himself in the way of putting on the whole orchestra as his private mask or corporate mask, nor is he able to put on the whole public as a mask, whereas a European doesn't even think about this as a problem.
“TV as a New Mythic Form”, 1970, in Understanding Me, 2003, p 168
Year: 1970
Chapter:
Putting On
Compiled by William Kuhns
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