I have made some valuable upgrades to my setup over the past year that I’d recommend to other conductors trying to make their setup more useful when trying to juggle technology old and new, i.e. scores and pencils AND monitors and mice.

As the artist Marcel Duchamp famously said, the spectator completes the work. The audience is our final and most important collaborator. And in the artists’ communication with the audience, we can discover opera’s true anti-elite potential.

–Yuval Sharon: A New Philosophy of Opera

According to Klein, humans have at least 9 grand Sources of Power. They include storytelling, metaphor, and intuition. They also include rationality (Kahneman’s more deliberate “System 2”), although in highly dynamic environments where time is short and information is imperfect, rationality quickly falls apart. And, over long stretches, rationality gets tired while intuition remains.