Re: [PEN-L] music and the destruction of authority

[Waistline2]

>> The first violinist was the ur-conductor, so the conductor's role wasn't totally new. But I don't see why the job of conductor couldn't be rotated among different members of the orchestra. <<     Comment   I misunderstood matters.   I thought the point was the existence of the conductor as conductor rather than who gets to be conductor. Who gets to be the conductor is a democratic matter . . . yes? The existence of the conductor as conductor of a symphony seems to me a very different matter.     peace     Melvin P.