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Yoshi Kato December 16, 2020Updated: December 18, 2020, 7:09 am
Sarah Hicks with the Minnesota Orchestra in 2017. Photo: Courtney Perry
The challenges musicians face to keep their skills sharp and make a living during the pandemic have been well-documented. But conductors have an extra set of obstacles.
Unlike their comrades who play within the symphony, they can’t spend their sheltered-in-place hours practicing their instrument, which is the orchestra itself. The technology is still being perfected for fluid remote performances by just two musicians, and those multi-panel viral videos of classical instrumentalists playing a piece together are marvels of digital editing as much as of performance. The postproduction combining of individual instrumentalists, while its own art, is the antithesis of live conducting. ....

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