"Hello? LSO here. Can you conduct us today?"
One conductor's plane delayed in a snowstorm is another's....opportunity. Not that the snow helps. Last Sunday George Jackson was home and looking forward to a well-earned day off when all of a sudden the phone rang. Next thing he knew, he was dealing with a clutch of brand-new scores, cancelled Ubers and a banana case... JD George Jackson faces the music Photo: Brian Hatton BANANA CASE AT THE BARBICAN A guest post by George Jackson Sunday morning. It’s 6:30, and for some reason, I am wide awake. I have just spent a week on tour with the Orchestre de Paris, where I have been Daniel Harding’s assistant: Cologne, Dortmund, Luxembourg, and Brussels. The week before that, my first Schumann Symphony No.4 with the Transylvanian Philharmonic in Cluj; the week before that, the first leg of the OdP tour, at ‘home’ in Paris, and then in Vienna. I was grateful for my first full day off in three weeks: Sunday lunch planned with a couple of schoolmates, followed by the new Rick...