Conductor and Member of an Orchestra: on a Problem of a Mutual Understanding
The article consists of the author's fifty five years experience observations as JJ-iL a soloist of three symphony orchestras in Moscow - Radio and Television orchestra, USSR State Symphony orchestra and Academic Symphony Cappella orchestra (1959-2014) and shows an interrelations between the conductor and the members of the orchestra. Their relationships build on their respect to each other, which depends on their professional ability to understand and to perform music. Another factor is the conductor's temper - good or bad, his humanity towards the performer of the orchestra. There are typical examples of the rehearsal or concert performing in the article, mutual work with the musical text, some controversial situations when the conductor could not find the way to understand the member's of the orchestra position. The author comes to the end with the analyze of the conductor's work with the student's orchestra in the Conservatoire, including conductors attempts to teach students how to play their instruments which is complete controversy with the educational process in the special classes.