{"id":2287,"date":"2009-04-02T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T23:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2009-04-02T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T23:32:20","slug":"a-mild-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/02\/a-mild-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"a mild rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHannu Lintu<\/a><\/p>\n

This week we’ve been rehearsing with one of our regular guest conductors, the Finn Hannu Lintu.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s a great guy, with a typical dry Finnish sense of humor, and is a wonderful musician.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s also quite followable, even though his movements can look a bit indecipherable at times.\u00c2\u00a0 With each return he gets easier to read.<\/p>\n

I’ve been pondering things that happen with the orchestra when guest conductors are at the helm.\u00c2\u00a0 It depends on who is in town, but mostly often a guest conductor seems to inspire most musicians to become caricatures of themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 When the music director is in town, people are a bit more circumspect, because he’s the guy with the contractural authority to initiate the termination of employment.<\/p>\n

We also seem to let basic musicianship slide a little bit: playing in tune, playing with steady rhythm, blending with our sections, listening to others instead of just ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 This mostly happens in rehearsals – things get quite a bit tighter and more professional in concert – but why should it happen at all?\u00c2\u00a0 The role of an orchestral musician (no matter what their title or instrument) is to play in concert with their colleagues and to uphold the artistic standards of the ensemble regardless of who is on the podium.<\/p>\n

We really should play as if Carlos were in town for every series, in theory.\u00c2\u00a0 In practice, given human nature, it’s not always possible, but we should really should try to do our best.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you tell that this week has been a bit tough?\u00c2\u00a0 The fact that we’re coming back from spring break is no doubt contributing to the whole situation.<\/p>\n

All that aside, however, the concerts should be of our usual standard, and pianist Horacio Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez<\/a> sounds fabulous in the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hannu Lintu This week we’ve been rehearsing with one of our regular guest conductors, the Finn Hannu Lintu.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s a great guy, with a typical dry Finnish sense of humor, and is a wonderful musician.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s also quite followable, even though his movements can look a bit indecipherable at times.\u00c2\u00a0 With each return he gets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-AT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6103,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/04\/lintu-in-cincinnati\/","url_meta":{"origin":2287,"position":0},"title":"lintu in cincinnati","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Hannu Lintu, one of our favorite guest conductors from years past in Oregon, is making quite the splash in the Cincinnati Symphony's music director search. 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