When an acclaimed conductor like John Eliot Gardiner is caught behaving badly, it’s usually a tune you’ve heard before
that while Gardiner remains “one of the most intellectually gifted conductors I have known,” he simultaneously “seems to raise intolerance to an art form.”Morrison also noted that this “dinosaur” model of the overbearing maestro is not long for this world — that, heat waves aside, the “climate has changed.” “Young conductors today tend to be well-schooled, well-mannered technocrats,” he writes, “good at their jobs but rarely making outrageous demands.
The classical world has developed mechanisms to rein in these reigns of terror. Orchestras now have unions, human resource departments and protocols for processing grievances and addressing harassment and bullying. And the larger circulatory system of the orchestral world is built upon circuits of visiting and guest conductors who must play well with others.
“Replace charismatic leadership with technocratic good manners and the whole edifice comes tumbling down,” he writes. “Fine by me, but just beware of what this means. Fewer recordings, fewer concerts, fewer subsidies, fewer jobs. We return to an 18th century world where the musician is a servant. Lower fees, more precarity, less respect. In some ways we are already there.”
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