Method
In a 1970's interview on Leningrad Television, when asked how he chooses a particular interpretation of the music he conducts, Mravinsky explained that he tries to understand what the composer's intention was by immersing himself into the "atmosphere" of the music (Mravinsky used a term "atmospherization").
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“I do not know a method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
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—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
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—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)