Thielemann bleeds in New Year’s concert
OrchestrasFrom the Berliner Zeitung:
…How dangerous real music making can be was also shown on this last evening of 2024 at the State Opera. Christian Thielemann injured himself on the sharp edge of a score page during a short speech and blood flowed. Thielemann sucked his finger, informed the audience and seemed irritated for a moment…. A female fan rushed up to the maestro and handed him a handkerchief. Later, a musician gave Thielemann a plaster. Every musician knows from their own experience of hastily turning pages how painful a cut caused by a sharp edge of paper is. Incidentally, there is less risk of cuts with old scores than with digital printouts. The obligatory bouquet of flowers went to the concertmaster.
iPads
You aren’t wrong
No, just men making a fuss over nothing, just a paper cut.
It also depends upon the type of music.
Don’t give Mr Thielemann the latest (last?) book by Thomas Pynchon.
Ah – the paper cuts of life..
why can’t conductors use an iPad like the players?
Screen is too small. Some of them know the score anyway. I am.just watching 97 year old Blomstedt doing Bruckner 9 with the BPO on the Digital Concert Hall. He has a score but didn’t open it….
If you are used to a score, then that’s what you use. Have been in a couple of concerts where the tablet or iPad has failed.
Yeah — the luddites probably still read BOOKS.
People who read books learn more and are more intelligent
Yeah… I hear you.
I am bracing myself for January 20, because all non-Native speakers of French in the US who have been caught using the word “aperçu” in quotidian conversation (and, without the necessary shred of self-conscious irony) will be rounded up and put behind barbed wire, for the safety of all the Real Americans. Hey, maybe I will meet a nice woman.
Because the disadvantages are (still) bigger than the advantages. Simple matter of practicality and efficiency.
Players are working with a single staff, so it works well for them. Conductors have all the parts so it would yield a very small notational display and frequent page prompts to change the page. I personally detest playing piano scores from an iPad.
I am happy to know that it was not a serious injury to the maestro!
Hardly an epileptic fit!
Hmph
Mitropoulos never had to worry about injuring himself on a page turn.
Nor Toscanini.
Murray Periah lost I don’t know how many years of music making after he cut himself on a sheet of paper. . .
Wiener Blut schmeckt so gut!
Thielemann had nothing more to offer than blood, toil, sweat and tears
His mentor, Herbert Von Karajan didn’t need a score, so would never have suffered from this sort of thing.
In 36 years as an orchestra librarian you would not believe how many cuts I got. But conductors rarely injure themselves with scores.
Paper cuts are the worst. And hard to heal.