Word: wandmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world's great cellists has played under more than 300 conductors-and has yet to meet "one who suffers from an inferiority complex." In a soon-to-be published book called Cellist, excerpted in last week's Saturday Review, Piatigorsky writes a delightfully incisive analysis of wandmanship. The conductor's role, he argues, has grown out of all reasonable proportions. "The focus of attention" he says, "has shifted from prima donna, prima ballerina and the virtuoso to a conductor, who, as a performer, has become all three in one. If he is to be blamed...
| 1 |