The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
Benjamin Zander Quotes
It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming.
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| Birth: | 9th March, 1939 |
| Nationality: | American, British |
| Profession: | Composer, Conductor, Music Director |
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Benjamin Zander is an American conductor from the United Kingdom. Benjamin Zander started to compose music at the age of nine. Several of his compositions came to the attention of composer Benjamin Britten, who invited the Zander family to spend three summers in Aldeburgh, England the beautiful seaside village in Suffolk where he lived. Benjamin Zander took lessons with Benjamin Britten and became a student of theory of Britten’s amanuensis and assistant, Imogen Holst, daughter of composer Gustav Holst. In 1965 he won a Harkness International Fellowship and traveled to the United States for graduate work at Brandeis University, Harvard University and with Leonard Shure and Ernst Oster in New York.
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