http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/sharing-intense-emotions-motivates-maestros-3575/ Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/sharing-intense-emotions-motivates-maestros-3575/#comment-517 Alton Thompson Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:08:37 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/07/21/sharing-intense-emotions-motivates-maestros/#comment-517 As a conductor myself I can vouch for this result. Artists in general are not strongly motivated by social status. Conductors are artists and thus no exception. Conducting is, as one of my colleagues described it, an 'integrating activity.' One spends many hours collaborating with others and many hours in solitude with the score. One needs analytical skills and emotional intelligence. 'One must think with the heart and feel with the brain,' as George Szell put it. The work calls for everything you can bring to it. No life experience is, or should be, wasted on a conductor.Conductors, like all musicians, will admit that music can be a strange way to make a living. But it's a great way to make a life. As a conductor myself I can vouch for this result. Artists in general are not strongly motivated by social status. Conductors are artists and thus no exception. Conducting is, as one of my colleagues described it, an ‘integrating activity.’ One spends many hours collaborating with others and many hours in solitude with the score. One needs analytical skills and emotional intelligence. ‘One must think with the heart and feel with the brain,’ as George Szell put it. The work calls for everything you can bring to it. No life experience is, or should be, wasted on a conductor.Conductors, like all musicians, will admit that music can be a strange way to make a living. But it’s a great way to make a life.

]]> http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/sharing-intense-emotions-motivates-maestros-3575/#comment-516 Anonymous User Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:26:10 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/07/21/sharing-intense-emotions-motivates-maestros/#comment-516 Rather, " Why Conductors Think They Conduct." Rather, ” Why Conductors Think They Conduct.”

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