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Old Apr 8 2008, 7:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Yagan Kiely View Post
The Vienna Phil don't need a conductor for the above reasons. They need a conductor so that the interpretation is coming from one person rather than 200. So that they play a certain note at a certain dynamic rather than 200 peoples interpretation of dynamic. It is get get the piece into one persons idea (though they all have input), rather than chaos of ideas.
I never thought of conducting in that light...but it does make a lot of(obvious) sense.
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