Why Germans always win at football and symphony concerts
mainFrankfurt’s incoming music director Alain Altinoglu has been sharing some thoughts on life and art.
Germany is good at football, he says, because players are willing to merge their individuality into the collective. Same with their orchestras. ‘But at some point we French will also win …’
He omits to point out that too much collectivism can make very boring football teams. And orchestras.
Tottenham v. RB Liepzig Wednesday night. COYS!!
He also omits that Germany has a history of suffering from too much collectivism lol
When I drove through San Francisco recently, I wished the Americans a bit of collectivism. Looking at the sheer amount of homeless people… err… redacted… temporarily inconvenienced potential millionaires, living in parks and under bridges.
Looked like a third world country.
At the last world cup the french desorganization had better results
Norman,
why this obvious obsession with so many things German ? Nothing is perfect any more in the state of Germany, as you well know. I wonder who will be the soccer champion in Quatar. I bet it will be Britain who have been waiting for over 50 years. Maybe Brexit will change everything.
Britain won’t enter a team to the world cup in Qatar.
I’m interested to see that Mr. Altinoglu, though with a Turkish surname, seems to be of Armenian descent. How does that work?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Altinoglu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide#Armenians_under_Ottoman_rule
Yes, he was born in Paris and grew up and was educated there. French for me.
Hardly rocket science…
It’s true. In a recent concert, the [redacted] Orchestra in [redacted] won from the audience with 5 – 0.
And countries. And national broadcasters.
Crowds and Power (1960) by Elias Canetti
Just saying……
German football teams can be boring at times, but their major orchestras are never boring. French are better in football than in orchestral playing. I have heard Orchestra de Paris under different conductors and I disliked their sound.
See link for the Leipzig Gewandhaus Football Team.
https://www.classicfm.com/artists/philharmonia-orchestra/pictures/inter-orchestra-football-match/
As usual, the Germans look better turned-out than our lot!
Claudio Abbado used to play football with the LSO in one of the London parks.
I once met Jimmy Hill, then the Match of the Day presenter, at Glyndebourne. He was introduced to Mark Elder, who was conducting that day and got him to autograph Jimmy’s programme.