Method
In a 1970's interview on Leningrad Television, when asked how he chooses a particular interpretation of the music he conducts, Mravinsky explained that he tries to understand what the composer's intention was by immersing himself into the "atmosphere" of the music (Mravinsky used a term "atmospherization").
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Famous quotes containing the word method:
““I have usually found that there was method in his madness.”
“Some folk might say there was madness in his method.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“I do not know a method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks ... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries.... Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don’t bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)