It is an iconographic gesture. A conductor, a Director, a choreographer, or a choreographer (Pina Bausch!) with far-outstretched Arm, often armed with a baton or a long finger pointing into the aura of the table Width. In the world of art and on such pictures (and book covers from major artists-biographies) are often not visible to other people, your instructions to the devotee musicians, actors, singers, dancers.
We speak of actors, of both sexes and any gender. But in the Pose of the landmark theatre and Opera ruler, of the orchestra-Maestro’s men are Shown mostly. It is also the field Mr Posen are Yes, almost the last of the so: of the Karajan’s, Strehlers, stone or Castorf’s production – and, of course, by the Maestro Daniel Barenboim.
a Few of them will even know who has passed before Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. It was the then young Romanian-born conductor Sergiu Celibidache, who officiated after the war, up to the year 1952 as a successor to the famous, through his collaboration with the Nazis, however, stressed Wilhelm Furtwängler. Later, Celibidache was, now even famous, for two decades, until his death in 1996, the General music Director of the Munich Philharmonic orchestra.
The then-popular “Celi” has referred to the also quite famous music critic Joachim Kaiser in the magazine of the “süddeutsche Zeitung” once frankly as “ass hole”. The Emperor had even remembered Celibidache patronizing posturing of the young talents in an evening of his shepherd dog, caressing a “dictator.”
In times of MeToo is the abuse of power is a more open topic
become a Former orchestra members and friends of the star conductors have objected to this judgment, of course. Other were silent. So this is most of the time. Now, in times of the Internet and the MeToo-debate, is the abuse of power become a more open topic. With accusations against many of the protagonists of the arts and culture scene. The speeches of individual musicians, Daniel Barenboim in Berlin now, humiliation on samples and self-glory be accused of, however, are not alone in the artistic world star, but a soon eighty-year-old man, committed by word and deed far beyond concert halls and Opera houses, for human rights and, above all, the peace and understanding process between the Israelis and the Palestinians. So also against the abuse of Power is involved.
A Paradox? In fact, there are in free societies, only a few spheres in which so much absolute Power as in the area of fine arts. The sole ruler is the artist, which are delivered in the own walls first, or a keep themselves there first. Especially the writer. However, in the visual arts, in the relationship between painter and model (or a photographer and model) always play such situations of dependency and of being exposed, of veneration, or even of hearing a role.
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conductor of the state Opera Daniel Barenboim: “I’m not a lamb”
Frederik Hanssen
This applies in a metaphorical way there, where we worked in groups, in Ensembles together for a performance, to a staging. Behind the Scenes there were and are, even according to the Weinstein-scandal, the infamous casting couch. But what light happens in the ramp? There, too, decides about fainting, artistic, human, with consequences, often for life.
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