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From the Ted Talk by Charles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble

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I am a contcoudr, and I'm here today to talk to you about trust. My job depends upon it. There has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

Now in the old days, cdtnocuing, music mnikag, was less about trust and more, frankly, about cocieron. Up to and around about the Second World War, conductors were ianvalirby dictators — these tyrannical figures who would rehearse, not just the orchestra as a whole, but individuals within it, within an inch of their lives. But I'm happy to say now that the world has moved on, music has moved on with it. We now have a more democratic view and way of making music — a two-way setret. I, as the conductor, have to come to the rehearsal with a cast-iron sense of the outer architecture of that msiuc, within which there is then immense personal freedom for the members of the orrcsthea to snihe.

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I am a _________, and I'm here today to talk to you about trust. My job depends upon it. There has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

Now in the old days, __________, music ______, was less about trust and more, frankly, about ________. Up to and around about the Second World War, conductors were __________ dictators — these tyrannical figures who would rehearse, not just the orchestra as a whole, but individuals within it, within an inch of their lives. But I'm happy to say now that the world has moved on, music has moved on with it. We now have a more democratic view and way of making music — a two-way ______. I, as the conductor, have to come to the rehearsal with a cast-iron sense of the outer architecture of that _____, within which there is then immense personal freedom for the members of the _________ to _____.

Solution


  1. orchestra
  2. conducting
  3. invariably
  4. music
  5. shine
  6. street
  7. conductor
  8. making
  9. coercion

Original Text


I am a conductor, and I'm here today to talk to you about trust. My job depends upon it. There has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

Now in the old days, conducting, music making, was less about trust and more, frankly, about coercion. Up to and around about the Second World War, conductors were invariably dictators — these tyrannical figures who would rehearse, not just the orchestra as a whole, but individuals within it, within an inch of their lives. But I'm happy to say now that the world has moved on, music has moved on with it. We now have a more democratic view and way of making music — a two-way street. I, as the conductor, have to come to the rehearsal with a cast-iron sense of the outer architecture of that music, within which there is then immense personal freedom for the members of the orchestra to shine.

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Important Words


  1. architecture
  2. bond
  3. born
  4. coercion
  5. conducting
  6. conductor
  7. conductors
  8. days
  9. democratic
  10. depends
  11. dictators
  12. figures
  13. frankly
  14. freedom
  15. happy
  16. immense
  17. inch
  18. individuals
  19. invariably
  20. job
  21. lives
  22. making
  23. members
  24. moved
  25. music
  26. musical
  27. mutual
  28. narrative
  29. orchestra
  30. outer
  31. personal
  32. rehearsal
  33. rehearse
  34. respect
  35. sense
  36. shine
  37. spin
  38. street
  39. talk
  40. today
  41. trust
  42. tyrannical
  43. unshakable
  44. view
  45. war
  46. world