Re: Domingo's reputation as a conductor
- From: urporxc@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Jan 2006 20:00:41 -0800
I guess some conductors are more tolerant than others. I remember
reading back when Riccardo Muti was the conductor of the Philadelphia
Orchestra that he agrily put down his baton and walked away from a
rehearsal when he saw a musician with little to play reading a book.
rich
Ken Meltzer wrote:
> urporxc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > What kind of reputation does Placido Domingo have as a conductor? I
> > thought the orchestra produced a good sound under his baton at the Met
> > on Saturday, but some of the musicians seemed a bit uninvolved as I
> > watched them with my binoculars from time to time. For example one of
> > the French horn players spent pretty much the whole night reading from
> > a book and some of the other musicians were also doing a lot of
> > whispering to each other and joking around, which I never noticed with
> > James Levine or some of the other visiting conductors. Is this
> > normal orchestral musician behavior or is it a case of the
> > 'students' taking it easy when the substitute teacher is in the
> > classroom?
>
>
> There's a story told about Pierre Monteux. He began a rehearsal, and
> saw one of the musicians reading the newspaper.
> "Good news, I hope," Monteux said.
> Best,
> Ken
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