I heard some delicious gossip from a major midwestern orchestra the other day, namely that the music director re-seated the first violin section after the following series of events happened:<\/p>\n
1) Gave instructions about dynamics to the violins, asking that they be noted in the parts.<\/p>\n
2) Concerts came and went, dynamics were largely not played by said violin section.<\/p>\n
3) Music director blows a gasket, looks at all the violin parts to see which ones had been marked, and which hadn’t.<\/p>\n
4) Re-seated the violins so that every non-marker would sit with a marker.<\/p>\n
5) Hilarity ensued.<\/p>\n
I’m sure that (5) did not happen, and I haven’t heard confirmation of this story, but if anyone knows the real poop, I’d love to hear it from the horse’s mouth, so to speak…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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