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"Don’t be disrespectful to your players (no swearing)"
Pierre MonteuxStravinsky, e can do what e like, but I have to do what ze composer as — Pierre Monteux
"Stravinsky, e can do what e like, but I have to do what ze composer as written."
Pierre Monteux
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Pierre Benjamin Monteux was a French conductor. After violin and viola studies, and a decade as an orchestral player and occasional conductor, he began to receive regular conducting engagements in 1907. He came to prominence when, for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company between 1911 and 1914, he conducted the world premieres of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and other prominent works includ
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