Conductor sets out on a baby tour
OrchestrasThe Swiss conductor Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer, artistic director of Andermatt Music, has been telling local media how she plans to juggle her six month-old baby on a forthcoming tour: ‘I have a professional and a private life. My son is part of my private life, I don’t have to make a big deal about it. It’s extremely beautiful and I’m very happy with it. I discover and learn new things every day.’
Real artists cannot (and shouldn’t be urged to) draw a clear line between professional and private life.
If everyone would behave in such a Swiss manner, music and music making would become very unemotional matter.
When all of the cities you are performing in are within an hour of your home, I don’t think that qualifies as a tour. That’s just normal conditions for any regional Swiss orchestra.
Poor baby travelling all over the place.
As long they’re travelling climate-friendly by train and not by car.
Oh yes, those super green trains, whose tunning and maintenance leaves no carbon footprint whatsoever…
Once again this is both a ridiculous story and a misleading headline. Who cares that she’s juggling a baby on tour (other than to say “Kudos to you, that’s not an easy thing to do”).
The story is literally about how isn’t not a big deal, so why report it in the first place, let alone accompanied by a headline that suggests that the focus of the tour is the baby and not her job as a conductor.
Seriously, your thinly veiled sexism is so tiresome.
Does she have an au pair? Perhaps a refugee?
Hey, give that kid a baton and let him work right alongside of mom while she’s conducting! It’ll be a much better show than that damned robot was!
Last paragraph of the article: In unserem aus rund 50 Personen bestehenden Berufsochester sind all so zwischen 25 und 45 Jahre alt. Viele haben Kinder, die sie Begleiten. Wir sind in der Betreuung der Kleinen sehr gut organisiert. Wir sind Berufsmusiker und musikerinnen, viele davon mit Kind. Fur uns ist das ein naturliches Miteinander.
All under control. No juggling. No big deal.