ArtsWatch

Don't know if you saw this Fiona Maddocks article about Vladimir Jurowski, where she mentions his rehearsal methods:

"Rehearsals are largely silent occasions — music aside, of course — with only the conductor speaking. Players with years of training and virtuosic technique, not to mention ideas of their own, have to remain tacit. For some, this means biting their tongues.

'This is something I have been trying to change at the LPO,' Jurowski says. 'I cannot have talking in rehearsal. If I find someone is talking to their neighbour about football or last night's soap, it is not so much my right as my duty to tell them to stop.'"

It's interesting to read this in light of your review of the Runnicles/Tetzlaff concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the note about the orchestra and rehearsal styles. Of course, I have no idea about what the orchestra rehearsals are like there, but it would be interesting to know how well the players there would work with Jurowski's rehearsal style in a long-term relationship, were it to come to fruition.