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author = ["authors/jenna.md"]
categories = "Editorial"
date = "2016-07-30T13:19:00+01:00"
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lastmod = "2016-08-05T13:54:00+01:00"
slug = "conductorless-orchestras-cases-for-chamber-opera"
title = "Conductorless orchestras, cases for chamber opera"
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Reading James Chater's article about Persimfans got our minds turning. An acryonym for "Pervyi simfonischeskii ansambl bez dirigera"


http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2016/07/renaissance-conductorless-orchestras-reveals-limits-traditional

- another point for small chamber operas - a move back to conductorless orchestras?
- music gets more complicated, written witht he assumption that a conductor will be there to hold it together
- exciting music, not like it's not great - 
- dictatorship saves time, it's hard to get a whole group of people on the same page when they have equal say
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## Halls are too big

http://www.wqxr.org/story/what-we-learned-first-new-york-opera-fest/

## "Opera has broken free of the stage"

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/what-we-learned-first-new-york-opera-fest/
