Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

  • -- James Levine 詹姆斯·莱文

巨大的灾难会过去,无论是管弦乐队还是指挥家都不会产生错觉,认为他们做出这样或那样的姿态,将是最终结果的决定性因素。

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The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.

任何音乐家的生活都不属于正常的日程安排。每个星期都有不同的排练,不同的昼夜演出,所以我们没有一个特定的模式可以遵循。对于一个列车员来说,情况会更糟,因为我们要考虑旅行。

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

它必须能够以每一种风格最大限度地表达和交流,而你能做到这一点的唯一方法,就像威尔第所说的那样,每天一点点地处理一个文件,直到乐队的集体品质显现出来。

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.

地球上的生命是一系列不断发生的灾难性事件,我们比三叶虫或爬行动物更适合灭绝。所以我们会消失。我心里毫无疑问。

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

所以我认为,如果一个人有资金、网络和设备来做这件事,还有经验,这是关键因素,那么他们可能是相当致命的。

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

列车员所要做的就是往后站,尽量不碍事。莫扎特在做所有的工作。

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

他的风格有一种绝望的欢快,就像一个管弦乐队在一艘正在沉没的船上拼命演奏。

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

如果我在阅读的时候没有得到鼓点因子,那我就做不到。

Attraction, apparently, is often accompanied by delusion.

显然,吸引力常常伴随着错觉。

Truth is always a delusion.

真理总是一种错觉。