{"id":13985,"date":"2016-01-21T16:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2016-01-21T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T00:24:48","slug":"the-guest-conductor-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/21\/the-guest-conductor-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"the guest conductor formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After over twenty years of having my butt in the chair of a major orchestra, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that there is a Guest Conductor Formula. It goes like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Program a piece that no orchestra has played.<\/li>\n<li>Program a very popular concerto.<\/li>\n<li>Program a major piece that is right in your wheelhouse and which is hard to screw up. (Most often this is Shostakovich 5th Symphony)<\/li>\n<li>Let the orchestra out early.<\/li>\n<li>Be nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, because this is something our music director would never do, even at one of his guest gigs. I&#8217;m not sure what that means, but it means something. &lt;winky face&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Any of you lifers out there got anything to add to this formula? Throw me a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After over twenty years of having my butt in the chair of a major orchestra, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that there is a Guest Conductor Formula. It goes like this: Program a piece that no orchestra has played. Program a very popular concerto. Program a major piece that is right in your wheelhouse and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":13986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[299,2],"tags":[3734,323],"class_list":["post-13985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conducting","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-guest-conductors","tag-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3Dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1459,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/21\/fatigue-factor\/","url_meta":{"origin":13985,"position":0},"title":"fatigue factor","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of the season when the first wave of fatigue starts to set in. \u00a0We've had two back-to-back classical series, then the Inside the Score concert, and now we're on our second back-to-back classical run. \u00a0It feels like everyone is pretty much running on fumes this week, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;conducting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"conducting","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/conducting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":827,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/06\/first-meetings\/","url_meta":{"origin":13985,"position":1},"title":"first meetings","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we had the first rehearsals for our upcoming classical series concerts with Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen. 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