I Started Conducting Lessons And I Realized

Conducting Is Intensely Social. You Work With A Hundred People Every Day. You Collaborate, You Try To Focus Their Thoughts, You Try To Give Them A Concept, You Try To Inspire Them, And It's Actually Exhausting.

Of Course Performing Talent, That's Clear. Maybe This Is Not So Well-known Among Young People Who Are Interested In Music, Who Are Talented In Music, But They're Trying To Figure Out How To Go About It.

We're Not Talking About An Elite Art Form From The Price Point Of View. We Have A Building In L.a. That Is Incredibly Open, Exciting, Inviting, And All That, And There's No Reason For This Music Not To Be Part Of Everybody's Everyday Life.

You Know, In Some Ways Conducting Is Counter-intuitive. It's Like Winter Driving In Finland - If You Skid, The Natural Reaction Is To Fight With The Wheel And Jam On The Brakes, Which Is The Quickest Way To Get Killed. What You Have To Do Is Let Go, And The Car Will Right Itself. It's The Same When An Orchestra Loses Its Ensemble. You Have To Resist The Temptation To Semaphore, And Let The Orchestra Find Its Own Way Back To The Pulse.

I Think We Are In The Process Of Getting The Word Out, And We Haven't Done Very Well Yet. But We Are Trying.