{"id":13976,"date":"2024-09-05T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?page_id=13976"},"modified":"2024-09-05T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:46:59","slug":"claudio-abbado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/mindset\/claudio-abbado\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudio Abbado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the below video, click on &#8220;Watch on Youtube&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 &quot;Resurrection&quot; (Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4MPuoOj5TIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Lucerne Festival Orchestra was known as the best pick-up band in the world: the musicians came together just for the festival each year, handpicked by the conductor, Claudio Abbado, from the best orchestras and ensembles in Europe (as well as some of the world\u2019s best soloists, like clarinetist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IKkgk58MvIs?si=fTi9XwqeH6oYBUFd&amp;t=963\">Sabine Meyer<\/a><\/strong> and flutist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cIUHkfwMZE4?si=F3Z5ormy0K363ONJ&amp;t=624\">Emmanuel Pahud<\/a><\/strong>), brought together by a love of the music and a love of this particular maestro.<\/p>\n<p>From what I\u2019ve read, Abbado\u2019s vocal instructions to the orchestra during rehearsals consisted almost entirely of one word: \u201cListen.\u201d \u00a0To each other, to the music, to the space between the notes \u2013 \u201clisten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is something I am going to be encouraging you all to do this year: to listen. \u00a0To each other, to yourselves, to the silence between things. \u00a0This will require a certain mindset, one that we spent a lot of time exploring last year and that we will explore again in the months to come. \u00a0Grade 7s, remember Lynda Barry\u2019s advice regarding attracting images \u2013 that it requires the same sense of calm friendliness one would use when faced with a shy forest animal that you wanted to encourage to come closer.\u00a0 Recall Ogion the Wise, listening with his wizard&#8217;s ear to the trees and the rain and the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>If you watch the Abbado video, you will see evidence of that mindset and you will see the deep listening that is happening, both on the podium and in the orchestra. \u00a0Notice he doesn\u2019t use a score. \u00a0Practice + relaxation + openness is what we are after, and real, active listening is the clearest and surest path there.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have the time and are so inclined, go for it: watch the whole thing. (And if you want to go deeper into your understanding of what Mahler was intending, take a look\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphony_No._2_(Mahler)\">here<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; I had a better, more insightful link, but it has sadly disappeared&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Please do watch the first opening minutes so you can see what I am referring to above, and so you can also see the wonderful sense of Abbado as Prospero, the sorcerer of Shakespeare\u2019s <em>The Tempest<\/em>, casting his spell over the ocean of those strings. \u00a0And then skip to the very end (about 1:24:45) and watch how the musicians relate to each other after the performance \u2013 the joy and friendliness and pleasure they take in each other and what they have accomplished. \u00a0Wouldn\u2019t it be amazing if our class ended like that? \u00a0Every day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the below video, click on &#8220;Watch on Youtube&#8221;: The Lucerne Festival Orchestra was known as the best pick-up band in the world: the musicians came together just for the festival each year, handpicked by the conductor, Claudio Abbado, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/mindset\/claudio-abbado\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6195,"featured_media":0,"parent":125,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13977,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13976\/revisions\/13977"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}