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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 2358171, member: 656"] [I]"It's a lot like a great orchestra," Auriemma said. "Everybody is playing their particular instrument and may be the best in the world at that. But that doesn't mean that you get to do your own thing because all of a sudden it's not an orchestra anymore. It's just a bunch of individuals trying to show how good they are. ____________________[/I] Just a note of modest disagreement with regard Geno's orchestra quote. Most major orchestra's do hold to Geno's thesis for reason of routine, comfort...you must remember that with 52-week seasons, major orchestras are doing a minimum of 36 weeks of 7 service weeks...4 rehearsals and 3 performances and a certain workplace ease is required...And that requires an sense of predictability, a comfort zone, no one sticking out, not making it difficult for the others (and the conductor). But, actually, this premise is not necessarily conducive to great art...which requires the freest spirits imaginable, a tone...a unique voice, artistic sensibility, the gift of the turn of the phrase...even...gasp...unpredictability. No, you don't want this is the middle of the violin section, where all must find a single, unified voice...but you do want it in your principal winds...oboe especially, horn, trumpet, clarinet...and if it turns up in a string section leader, especially an inner voice like viola or double bass, so much the better. That was our (collective) philosophy...Yes, we learned to adjust, to become an unusually special team, but mainly by following and emulating the unique, individual voices, that inspired our ensemble to be so special. I remember 25 years or so ago, perhaps our most special artist, was invited...no summoned...to take the audition for a principal chair of the Chicago Symphony...then the perhaps the greatest orchestra in the world. A former colleague of mine, the principal clarinet, with whom I served in the West Point Band, had insisted that this was (rightly) the guy with whom he wanted to make music with for the next 20 years. And damn the torpedoes. He was absolutely correct, the artist in question was like none other...And our guy didn't even get past the prelims...Most of the audition committee were unwilling to deal with that level of expressive freedom ...except for the one or two who understood what unique artistry was and were willing to chance it on a daily basis. A different approach, yes, but perhaps the correct model. What this all has to do with woman's BB, I don't know. :) [/QUOTE]

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