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In this week's Connecting clip of the week, David Kim talks about his role as a concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Here's this week's Connecting Clip of the Week.

So explain to people who don't know how orchestra operates what Concert Master means.

Concert Master is, well, back in the old days, back in the, you know, 1400s, 1500s,

when music was very much more simple than it is,

less complex, I should say, than it is now.

There was no such thing as a conductor or concert master.

Everybody would just play it together.

And then as music became a little bit more complex, they needed somebody to help kind of keep the sections together and all

this. And so the harpsichordist would kind of actually, they would have a big stick and they would

bang it on the stage. And that was very cumbersome. And then eventually the first chair violinist would start moving a little bit and became what they call in England.

They still call concert master the leader.

And then as music became more and more complex, they had to have a conductor.

And that's where the conductor position was born.

So Concertmaster now is a very different kind of animal.

I kind of serve as like, well, like when the, first of all,

when the conductor comes on stage at the beginning of the council,

well, first of all, I come on stage

and to applause and the lights come down and signaling to the orchestra, to the audience,

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