Simon Rattle: We’ll have to make the best of Brexit
mainFrom an interview with Erica Jeal in the Guardian today:
Some of the (LSO) players asked whether I’d have taken the job if I had known. I said it would have made me extraordinarily wary, it’s true – but we will make the best of it we can. And a lot of our European counterparts have said, ‘We are going to try to do more work with you rather than less!’”
Full interview here.
Sounds good. Next?
He should come more often to conduct SOdBR. His concerts were good.
I only heard the recordings…and they are amazing. That orchestra really played for Sir Simon.
Diddums.
“it was the orchestra’s curiosity and enthusiasm and complete lack of bullshit that I found amazingly attractive”
Interesting, Rattle’s highest praise for someone is “complete lack of bullshit”, he used the identical phrase regarding his first meeting with Karajan in a documentary.
But does he mean “humbleness” or “authenticity” or “absence of pretence” or “directness”? One wonders which orchestra and conductor he thinks is “full of bullshit”.