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Originally posted by FMFI do see what you mean although I'm not sure I'd ever characterise musicians as like chartered accountants. But there might, I suppose, be a significant 'corporate' aspect in many pro orchestral musicians' lives. Also, I think most if not all of the standard repertoire is inspiring, exciting and interesting for classical musicians to play, although I'm sure they get bored after a fashion now and again. Generally I am rather envious of musicians' lives, and don't tend to feel sorry for them. But the expressions on the faces of those in the video and the (to me) mind-numbing repetitiveness and rigidity of their parts did prompt feelings of pity. Of course, I don't know what they are thinking and feeling – they may be enjoying it intellectually and as an exercise in concentration, finding playing the music cathartic and generally be much more 'into it' than I perceived.
This I find this very interesting. I think more or less the same could be said for the vast majority of orchestra members playing huge swathes of the classical music that's out there.
The non-soloist professional orchestra musicians I have met have mostly been like chartered accountants (as opposed to entrepreneurs) in terms of how they go about what they ha ...[text shortened]... o classical music's voracious need to have thousands of jobbing musicians doing exactly that. 🙂