A conductor’s day job is to organize the music’s flow, but my awe at the sheer, perfect precision of Dan, Carlos, and Jason is reverential and unending. Nestled next to the violins, the piano, bass, and drums send out the musical heartbeat. It’s unusual to have trumpets in front of flutes and oboes yet here, power, gentleness, and grace all give to each other. Instead, we placed the band front and center, embraced all around by the orchestra. The fundamental, philosophical reach of this question: are you going to separate the two groups or blend them? One way might be to set them on opposing sides, but I don’t think that’s a solution at all. Location, location, location-the same goes for a concert hall or an urban environment. First of all, there’s the stage set-up a lot of folks to fit in a compact space.
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