Virtuoso Voices™ - Robert Spano (The War Room)  0:25
January 2010 CD 


[Use this clip to enhance your introduction of almost any Atlanta Symphony Orchestra recording conducted by Robert Spano, including the recent Adams, Barber, Corigliano, Higdon CD (Telarc 80673).  Other options include Copland - Appalachian Spring (Telarc 80596); Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Serenade to Music (Telarc 80676); Gandolfi -The Garden Of Cosmic Speculation (Telarc 80696).]


SUGGESTED HOST INTRO

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra operates under a management approach known as “collective leadership.”  Conductor Robert Spano is clearly in charge, but he encourages everyone to speak up.


CLIP TRANSCRIPT

“This is about people yelling at each other.  This is getting in each other’s faces.  This is stepping on each other’s toes and abducting other people’s agendas and throwing your two cents in and getting over it once you’ve done all that.  It’s why we call it the war room.  But you know, you don’t get anything done unless, unless you really go at it and, so we’ll be working on a program and we’re at liberty to say things that we don’t have to abide by.”


SUGGESTED HOST OUTRO

That’s one way to get things done, and it seems to be working for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and conductor Robert Spano. The New York Times calls their performances “vivid”, “incisive” and “rhapsodic.”  (Introduce music title, composer and performers.)



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