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Cue Sheet – November 17th, 2008

PODIUM GARB

There’s been plenty of talk about how orchestra players should dress on stage, but have you given any thought to what conductors wear in rehearsal? Probably not, because that’s something seen only by musicians, not by audience, except in the occasional (and increasingly rare) documentary, or in photos used as fillers in CD booklets. Most famously, Bruno Walter wore a sort of precursor to the Nehru jacket, familiar from many of his album covers:

brunowalter

Walter’s contemporaries tended to wear white shirts and ties, as did the musicians in rehearsal, but things began to loosen up in the 1960s. Get a load of this out-of-character orange outfit sported by Pierre Boulez in 1971:

Boulez

And today? Charles Noble, principal violist of the Oregan Symphony, offers a few observations in this post.

Classical Music,

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James Reel's cranky consideration of the fine arts and public radio in Tucson and beyond.