Must read books!

  • Advice for Young Conductors - Weingartner
  • Anatomy of the Orchestra - Del Mar
  • Brigade de Cuisine - John McPhee
  • Heat - Bill Buford
  • Poetics of Music - Stravinsky
  • Tao Te Ching - Lao Tse
  • The Composer's Advocate - Leinsdorf
  • The Modern Conductor, 7th Edition - Green/Gibson
  • The Score, The Orchestra and The Conductor - Gustav Meier
  • Zen in the Art of Archery - Herrigel

Monday, September 21, 2015

Needs and wants

Dear Readers,

While our orchestral Bill of Rights has been around a while, discussion arose last week in class about orchestral needs and wants as they pertain directly to our conducting.  Here are the questions I posed:

What conducting does the orchestra NEED?
What conducting does the orchestra WANT?
And what conducting do we do because we think it's cool?"

Please take a day or two to consider,  then I'll share with you the ideas we assembled.  I hope you will consider this a discussion, not a test or a statement of dogma.  I just think it is an interesting concept, and we came up with specific responses from both the class and our string quartet "orchestrina."  NOTE:  No violists were harmed in the writing of this post.

Regards to all.  Elgar sends his best.
MG

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