With 6.4 million views on TED you are somebody. And so Benjamin Zander is tremendously somebody, because a classical conductor who can pull that off: you don't make that happen very often. So since that legendary performance, Zander has also been a hireable speaker. And author of a booklet.
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And someone capable of swaying a civil service club like a symphony orchestra can also motivate any company. Or comes from Venezuela.
Benjamin Zander is in the Netherlands this weekend. He has settled down in The Hague to spend four days working with music students and professional orchestral musicians. On Saturday, he will play a piece with them that they have never seen before he hits the first beat. It will be a bummer. Or wonderful.
We're going to check it out and bring along a classical music hater. To see if it works.