Chapter 10Energy
When Matthew VanBesien is in a hurry, he does not wait for the elevator. He bounds up the stairs to his office. On the sixth floor. And as executive director of the New York Philharmonic, Matthew is in a hurry a lot, because he is in the business of managing a high-energy culture.
The New York Philharmonic has given over fifteen thousand performances—a milestone unsurpassed by any other orchestra in the world. Its uniformly world-class musicians, numbering over one hundred, play an average of 150 home performances a year. When you factor in the rehearsing that goes into this blistering pace, along with another couple dozen performances on the road in unprecedented locations like Pyongyang, a simple question arises: How can ...
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