Ricardo Muti
What an experience to watch this musician conduct a rehearsal. I can see why the CSO loves him. He is a master teacher, using metaphors to express concepts, gestures to make points, and even his bodily demeanor to express emotion. One of my favorites was when the orchestra was failing to keep the tempo steady. Muti pretended to be Thomas the Train, slowing down gradually to a full stop!The other incredible skill involved his singing solfege at the fastest pace I've ever witnessed. (Solfege is the Do-Re-Mi system that was popularized in the movie Sound of Music.) Whenever Muti sang a musical line back to the orchestra, he did it with solfege syllables, up to tempo. And in the piece they were playing--Strauss' Death and Transfiguration--that meant that many of the passages sped by impossibly quickly. Incredible!
posted by Stahlkes @ 12:58 PM
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