TV & Movies
A professional violinist breaks down the movies many wins.
People keep asking me if Ive ever worked with Lydia Tar.
Conductors pure and total love for all things analog makes Luddites look like Apple Geniuses.
Genius is apparently too heavy for the cloud.
The conductor is the shepherd through this journey, scrying ancient texts to divine the intention of these ghosts.
Does that sometimes come with a lack of boundaries that carries over in the fleshly world?
Thats why there are so manyintra-orchestral relationships.
Theres always some newer member (maybe a young cellist with great taste in shoes?)
who requires their undivided attention.
The sooner you accept it, the less therapy youll need.
They Hate Cancel Culture.
Classical music itself seems to serve as a counterpoint to cancel culture.
As Leonard Bernstein says in the movie, You must never forget that music is movement.
Shifting and changing, and flowing.
(Although, I would guessLydia is already wearing new Celine.)
Her exorbitantly expensive coat from The Row.
They Have Big-Stick Energy.
Batons are very personal.
Some conductors get theirshandmade in Tokyoor from a family members olive tree.
Ive even heard of aluminum or caribou antler pomelos (the little teardrop end of the baton).
In one instance, a conductor had one made from the cork of his favorite vintage wine.
Who wants to guess where Lydia got hers?
As for pencils, musicians and conductors are alike in being hella picky.
Lydia has an entire cabinet full of boxes of the original Blackwing 602s by Eberhard Faber.
At the time of writing, a dozen of these pencils currently go for $930 on eBay.
This article was originally published onFeb.
