Wednesday, June 23, 2010

WIT: about talent

 
After experiencing a performance by a musician with more arrogance than ability, the great Lithuanian maestro Vytautas Marijosius said: 

"When you don't got talent...you don't got for a long time."

5 comments:

  1. What a wonderful picture of, indeed, a very charismatic and witty man.

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  2. Vytautas Marijosius was a wonderful, sensitive, witty and talented man. I had the privilege of studying with him during my undergraduate days at Hartt 1962 - 1966.

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  3. Bryan, thank you. My years under VM's guidance are still with me to this day.

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  4. He was a man to be remembered in so many ways. I, being half Lithuanian, we worked well together. A coincidence perhaps. Nevertheless. He always patiently had the time to guide me in his art. What wonderful memories.

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  5. I studied conducting with Maestro Marijosius from 1968-1970, and continued to watch him conduct at Hartt from 1970-1972, while I was completing my masters in composition at Hartt. He was terrific in the studio and on the podium, and I saw many memorable concerts, including the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Daniel Pollard, Paul Olevsky, and Renato Bonanccini. I think that much of my understanding of Beethoven, Brahms, and Puccini comes from my studies with him.

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