My Right Arm . . .

Sweeney Todd is running full-tilt now.  Our last dress rehearsal is tonight, and I haven’t posted to the Conductorsblog in too long.  I could go into how late the nights have been and how rewarding, but exhausting, the work is.  But it all amounts to the fact that I haven’t put anything up here in a number of days.

Bad Conductorsblog.

This is a few days old, but since it is a happy development, I’m going to go ahead and post it up here.

Ron Spigelman is a conductor and blogger who wrote this interesting post on ways the Music Director search could be improved.  He specifically talks about the loss of momentum that occurs due to the transition being less of a “succession and more of a secession.”  Check it out.

Our friends at the Loose Filter Project always have fun and thought provoking posts up.  But relating back to my own post on Dudamel and Gilbert, Loosefilter has posted a wonderfully novel way of comparing Dudamel’s Mahler 1st Symphony to recordings by the old greats Bernstein and Kubelik.  Check it out here.

And to round out the post, and a little musical coffee to start your morning.  LA Phil, Salonen, and the Rite.