The Choir Conductor's Philosophy

The Choir Conductor’s Philosophy

“I just choose my pieces by hearing beautiful music, it doesn’t matter the Latin text, or difficulty, I don’t care whether professionals can do it in a week, while it would take me months or more than a year to exercise,  or whether it is western classic music, while we are Indonesian.”

He has now just 7 singers left. His best soprano passed away and another strong soprano left. They are without musical education, including his organist and himself. They started - never auditioned before -, exercising, singing in old age.

Yet, he has his own very melodious music lines of exercising the voice, his own way of conducting, not by just beating time, ... It took him months to train, practise Lacrymosa of Mozart. Sure not perfect, they are not professionals, but they enjoyed, were very proud after having mastered and You Tubed it.

 

I remember as of what I’ve listened to before, not all educated, professional conductors, musicians, singers, succeed, could capture beauty, - not just virtuosity -  yet there are amateur conductors, singers who can capture it.

Then the choir conductor said to me:

“It is the courage to free oneself from being a pupil, disciple, from teachers, public opinion and become mature, wiser. So, music, writing, art, whatever you pursue, even without being professional, becomes a joy. That’s my philosophy.”

January 2013