the ensemble's destiny

​A conductor doesn’t make a sound.  A concert producer doesn’t make a sound.  Instead, others allow these leaders to do wondrous things by graciously giving their trust, talent, and attention.  If the sounds musicians create are distillations of the culmination of their life to that point, leaders in the music field massage and mix these distillations to create even more complex cocktails of experience/ sound until we end up with an ensemble that is itself defined by the complex interactions of unique circumstances.  The ensemble itself achieves its destiny. But the leader that seeks to eliminate the expression of the unique circumstances and instead stamp his/her own tyranical view prevents the ensemble from fully realizing its destiny as a collective. The ensemble can never become more than the sum of its parts if one of its parts dominates the sum.