"The conductor is first and foremost a musical performer. Like an instrumentalist, he must relive the process of reincarnation of the score with all of his being, from the musical conception to the motor and emotional sphere." Ilya Musin
"It is necessary that we feel that he feels, that he understands, that he is moved; then his feeling and his emotion are communicated to those he conducts, his inner flame warms them, his electricity electrifies them, his drive drags them along; then he spreads around him the vital radiations of musical art. But if he is inert and glacial, he paralyzes everything around him; as do icebergs, whose rapid approaching cooling of the air".
Hector Berlioz
Siena,(Italy) Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Teatro dei Rinnovati, summer 1993
Legendary Ilya Musin conducting Don Juan by Richard Strauss
