' Conducting is communication. If you don't communicate, they're going to play by themselves. And if they play by themselves together, they don't need you in any case.'
Zubin Mehta, dynamic music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, on what it takes to master the art of the baton.
In the first of five programmes, five gifted young conductors are seen in highlights from a unique ' Conductors Workshop'. with RODICA IOSUB-COHEN (violin)
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
RUBIN ACADEMY ORCHESTRA OF
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY with student conductors
GISELE BUKA BEN-DOR
ISRAEL EDELSON, MARK GOODING FELIX KRUGLIKOV , MOTTI MIRON Narrator BERNARD KEEFE
Videotape editor PETER FRANCIS Executive producer RAM EVRON Producer RODNEY GREENBERG
A Jerusalem Music Centre production in association with BBCtv