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

Saturday, December 12, 2015

"TALK SHOW" - for those who missed it the first time around...


TALK SHOW

Interviewer: "Why did you start conducting, Maestro?"

Maestro:      "Well, Bob, I just LOVE to beat! I'd do it all day if I could. Beating, that's why I got into it; that's what turns me on about conducting. That and the money."

Interviewer: "What else do you like about conducting?"

Maestro:      "Well, Bob, when I am not beating, I really like to talk to the orchestra, you know, explain things."

Interviewer: "Like what, Maestro?"

Maestro:       "I like to tell them how great a piece is, and how much Beethoven has meant to me personally. Then I especially like to tell them when something sounds really bad. And then I like to have them do the passage over and over again. With my beat. Did I tell you, Bob, how much I like to beat?" 

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