Thursday, February 25, 2010

He is too young to conduct, isn't he?

I think the Gustavo Dudamel is a good conductor. He is enough passion when he conduct the youth orchestra. He has enough talent in the music and he is really like music very much. Some people think he is too young to conduct, I disagree with this opinion. Firstly, we can't evaluate person who is successful or failed by watching his age. By the way, I think the person who was 29 years old is not very young. He has some experiences when he is on the stage.
Secondly, as a conductor, I think his opinions for each piece is more important than his experience because conductor should express he own music by orchestra so he should have own thinks. If a conductor is very experience but he don't have own opinions for music, he will not be welcome.
Finally, experience is from practice. If he hasn't chance to conduct orchestra, he will not have experience forever. So I think he will conduct better with accumulating experience.