Playing under that enigmatic, combustible genius taught Mr. Honeck that conducting is a bodily pursuit, a physical recreation of the sound you want. Although Mr. Honeck is by no means copying his precursor, a certain similarity of gesture is obvious to anyone who has spent too much time watching old Kleiber videos on YouTube. “A violinist has the Oistrakh technique, or the Auer technique,” Mr. Honeck said. That’s like a fingering.”“I found out that this technique brings you to much more refined music-making,” he added. Like most other orchestras, the Pittsburgh Symphony has been forced to confront its inherited business model, and since it last visited New York it has seen its fair share of labor strife.

Source: New York Times May 08, 2019 13:41 UTC