#320 Benjamin Zander- Awaken The Possibility in Others, A Conductor's Guide to Leadership
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
The Boston Philharmonic, You Don't Notice Them.
I was fired twice. I started with the civic orchestra in Boston 50 years ago, exactly. And after seven years, the board decided not for bad reasons that I was not the right conductor for that orchestra because the symphonies of Gustav Mahler and Bruckner were not their cup of tea. They wanted entertainment. One of them actually asked me, why did you play some shop and symphonies? Well, the anosimphonies play shop,. Remember something light, something entertainment, you know, not a heavy Mahler symphony. But the orchestra loved them playing the, this was their dream to play these works. So when they fired me, the whole
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