{"id":2518,"date":"2012-02-09T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:13:21","slug":"what-does-it-take-to-be-an-orchestra-conductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/what-does-it-take-to-be-an-orchestra-conductor\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it take to be an Orchestra Conductor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/020812_1752_Whatdoesitt1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Justin Davidson at <em>New York Magazine <\/em>decided to find out what it took to become a musical conductor by taking a course at the Juilliard School. Some of the things he found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conductors have to deal with the Maestro Paradox \u2013 the person responsible for the totality of sound produces none.<\/li>\n<li>What conductors have going in their favour is that the performers want to do a good job. One musician said that it was &#8220;amazing how beautifully we play when we don&#8217;t know what the hell the guy on the podium is doing&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The role of the conductor has evolved. They used to be seen as shepherds who were not above publicly berating and humiliating individual players who made mistakes. Now they&#8217;re seen as directors of a team of professional musicians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about what the limiting factor of the best conductors is (hint: it&#8217;s not their physical capacity) as well as a deeper description of Davidson&#8217;s experiences, click <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/classicaldance\/classical\/features\/conductors-2012-1\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/classicaldance\/classical\/features\/conductors-2012-1\/\"><em>New York Magazine<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Davidson at New York Magazine decided to find out what it took to become a musical conductor by taking a course at the Juilliard School. Some of the things he found: Conductors have to deal with the Maestro Paradox \u2013 the person responsible for the totality of sound produces none. What conductors have going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/020812_1752_Whatdoesitt1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}