Davis, however, rarely chose musicians who knew each other.
And you can rig the game by choosing musicians who are secret scholars of musical arcana, and who enjoy a bit of musicological sparring.
Working with his chosen musicians, he simplified his notation, until, in "From the Seven Days" (May 1968), he was offering his players only a text on which to meditate in performance.
With the chosen musicians coming from more than 30 different countries and vastly different backgrounds, the program needed to touch as many eras and styles as possible, he said.
Having previously suspended activities in Fascist-controlled Italy and in Germany, the conductor came to Lucerne and on Aug. 25, 1938, led an orchestra of specially chosen musicians in a concert outside the lakeside house where Richard Wagner lived for six years.
If, however, I had to choose one musician, it would be ba., who takes his initials after his name - Benas Aleksandravičius.
When asked how he chooses the musicians, he speaks of the musicians' communities which, he says, "are very important to me.
He simply chooses the musicians he knows & likes.
They chose the musicians themselves; they appointed their conductor — they were far more independent than American orchestras.
