{"id":4573,"date":"2016-04-12T04:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2016-04-12T04:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:39:04","slug":"part-of-the-bigger-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"Part of the bigger picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leopold Stokowski conducted the American premier of Berg&#8217;s opera <i>Wozzeck<\/i> in 1930 (a joint effort of The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Phildelphia Grand Opera, and Curtis Institute).&#x000A0; Abram Chasins recalls a rehearsal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I attended his second rehearsal with the orchestra in the pit and singers on the stage.&#x000A0; After some twenty minutes of singing and acting, often at sixes and sevens, Stokowski stopped the rehearsal and addressed the principle singers very quietly: &#8220;I want you all to understand something,&#8221; he said.&#x000A0; &#8220;Get rid of the absurd&#x000A0; idea that nothing in this opera matters except what you do individually, and how your voicdes sound.&#x000A0; Don&#8217;t you understand that you are only part of a whole dramatic entity?&#x000A0; You have no regard for operatic integrity.&#x000A0; You are vain; you want personal applause.&#x000A0; It is all very inartistic, and I will not put up with it.&#x000A0; If you can&#8217;t take this correction, just leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Needless to say, no one left.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> &#x000A0;Source: Chasins, Abram (1979) <i>Leopold Stokowski: A Profile<\/i>.&#x000A0; London: Robert Hale, p.130<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leopold Stokowski conducted the American premier of Berg&#8217;s opera Wozzeck in 1930 (a joint effort of The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Phildelphia Grand Opera, and Curtis Institute).&#x000A0; Abram Chasins recalls a rehearsal: I attended his second rehearsal with the orchestra in the pit and singers on the stage.&#x000A0; After some twenty minutes of singing and acting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1096,1101,585,1100,1098,1099,1097],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers","tag-berg","tag-ensemble","tag-leopold-stokowski","tag-the-curtis-institute","tag-the-philadelphia","tag-the-philadelphia-grand-opera","tag-wozzeck"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4574,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}