The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

Composers are not all good conductors.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.