thought of the day 2009 11 17 - conductors

You know what I'd like to see, a world famous conductor who accidentally trips. Like he was in a rush to get to the concert and he worse shoes one size too big and in the middle of Concerto Allegro in D minor he stumbles a little bit. Not a bunch; not to where the whole audience would notice, but just enough so that all the people in the orchestra screw up. They're all so fixated on the stupid wand and they're so well trained they're like robots so they see him trip and they all play the wrong note or something. I would love to see that.

Well maybe not all of them because you know there's the one guy who's like the "maverick" in the orchestra and everybody else keeps telling him, "dammit Sebastian, you need to learn to play the game, you need to watch the wand, you're a fine musician but you can't just follow the music as it was written. this is why you're still third chair cello." So there's everybody else who fucks up a note when the maestro trips and then there's Sebastian who was the only one in the entire concert who played it correctly.

Either that or I'd like to see what an orchestra conductor would do at an air guitar contest.