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RE: Orchestral Players -- 2 Questions

Many thanks, learsfool (though perhaps I may call you Hutt after William Hutt, the best Lear's fool I ever saw live).

The reason for my question is that I sometimes listen to streams from the Concertgebouwe, and this past week I heard several commonly played works, various conductors, with sloppy mistakes. Not just wrong notes, but also musicians out of synch. I was surprised at that even though I know that these performances are recorded (though not, from my source, broadcast) live and thus always susceptible. I have also heard soloists make mistakes, but rarely a great orchestra with works it has played many times. What I heard sounded like insufficient rehearsal.

On the other hand, I am generally aware that rehearsal time has decreased during my starting-to-be many decades. Also, though I heard all the performances during the last week or 10 days, they certainly did not all occur during that time. Still, given an orchestra of such quality, I was surprised.


Jeremy


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