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After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On
- ian-g 6y agoMy favorite MTT moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgzsPoTp2iA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgzsPoTp2iA High school band nerd me and my friends loved seeing this. Professional musicians have to be so accurate^, especially in orchestras. It's nice to see they still sometimes fuck up. ^ When I was considering becoming a music major, my teacher told me to get a binder of music. I forget it's name, but it contained 95% of all the classical music you'd play (french horn, so classical) and told me I would have to learn it all and be able to pull any of it out almost note perfect to have a chance. ^ Also on the subject of being perfect - when SFS rehearsed a few years ago, MTT would stop you at some point, give some instruction, and move on. No re-run, everybody was good enough to note it down and not fuck it up the next time. Pro musicians are machines