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    The talent equation and MAHLER
    The talent equation and MAHLER
    The talent equation and MAHLER
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    The talent equation and MAHLER

    By Luis Conde

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    This book tackles the importance of challenges in our lives and how to accomplish whatever you put forth, no matter how difficult it may be. Luis Conde, founder of Amrop Seeliger y Conde, recounts some of the challenges that he has taken on in his life and the lessons he has learned from them, all while revealing the secret to his success: the talent equation.
    The latest challenge was nothing less than conducting a symphonic orchestra without knowing basic musical theory. He chose to conduct Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "The Resurrection," with the Vallès Symphony Orchestra in the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. With a lot of dedication and passion, it's possible to successfully complete a challenge as complicated as this one. The author, in his role as conductor of the orchestra, created the necessary harmony between the orchestra and the audience until the point at which they ultimately became one. Just as Mahler was a martyr consumed in the flames of hard work, Luis Conde gave his all to make this challenge a reality. This determination encourages us to pursue our own dreams.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlataforma
    Release dateOct 29, 2015
    ISBN9788416429998
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      The talent equation and MAHLER - Luis Conde

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      The seed of three challenges

      In our lives, there’s always that first day when we accomplish something really unique, and we remember that day in a very special way.

      We feel giddiness, insecurity and even fear which mix with the certainty that we’ve prepared ourselves well and that we’re going to come out victorious.

      From that first day when we found ourselves in front of a microphone speaking at a conference before a large audience, – possibly more experienced than us – to that other one when, sporting a brand new tie, we passed through the door of a huge office on the executive floor of a bank and saw its undaunted boss sitting in its far end; the day when our professional career was going to begin. We were then college students. We thought we were going to take the world by storm, but we were very far from knowing what our future would be.

      This is how many of us began our lives in the real world.

      When you finished college, how many of you thought you were going to be the director of a great company? How many of you were shown what was necessary to achieve that? How many of you have dreamt, in one moment or another, about being the conductor of a big symphony orchestra? How many of you were envious of that young guy who, in good English, addressed with implacable assuredness a select audience.

      In my case, ever since I was young, I certainly did.

      But at every first time I was overwhelmed by panic, giddiness and fear. I could also perceive the enormous satisfaction one feels when being able to break through this barrier as imaginary as it is real and even more so if I can share it with our closest friends.

      This great satisfaction, provoked by the attainment of a challenge through passion and effort, is what has led me throughout my life to find myself before many first times and to be able to consider several challenges which are not usually easy to accomplish.

      The constant eagerness to overcome, the battle to attain diverse goals, self confidence, permanent effort, and a big dose of optimism and hope explains the why in a life – my life – lived with intensity and passion.

      They say that in life you should have a child, plant a tree, and write a book. Once I had fulfilled three things – planted a large number of olive trees, had eight children and written a book – given I still had a life before me – I thought it would be good to set three new challenges that would bring value to my life, three new challenges that could teach me through experience some of the skills books don’t teach. Therefore, I decided to take the following challenges:

      crossing the Atlantic on a sailboat;

      creating a good wine;

      conducting an orchestra.

      You might put these three challenges forward at some point or another in your life.

      Sailing has always been one of my hobbies. Reaching the horizon, that far away line, seemed to me something reserved for only a few privileged. When I was a kid during the school vacations, I spent hours at the beach waiting for some kind neighbor to invite me to take a ride on his boat. One year, as a reward for getting good grades at the end of the school year, my father surprised us all with a small inflatable glass bottom row boat. Sadly, and right on the first day we had the chance to use it, we left it behind inside its bag on the sidewalk while the car rushed off. We never heard anything more from our first vessel, but what we indeed had was a conversation topic for the rest of the summer.

      The feeling of freedom the ocean offers to sailors has always been in my mind. How hard and dull life must be for them in a city with no sea and no vessel to glide over the water!

      But at that early age I did not realized I was planting a seed that would enable me to adquire a sailboat to cross the sea carrying my whole family onboard.

      I have liked wine since I was young. Just like my mother, I drink wine at breakfast every day of my life. I don’t remember ever trying milk. Even when returning home from school for an afternoon snack, I used to have bread with wine and sugar.

      Once married, every time we had a child I would buy sixty bottles of Rioja from the year each child was born. Some of the vintages were a great hit; a 1982 Viña Pomal was chosen when our fourth child, Andrea, came into the world, the same wine that was served at her wedding 25 years later. Once again the seed was there ready to be fertilized to grow into the elaboration of my own wine.

      Since I was very young I remember my father being obsessed with Wagner and Haendel. There wasn’t a Sunday on which their music didn’t resound in all the rooms of our house. Listening to it, I tried to conduct it with my hand in my pocket beating the tempo. Additionally, my grandmothers played piano and harp, and my uncle Ramón who played the violin was also a classical music critic.

      But the seed began to flower when, on multiple occasions, I began to organize concerts in the most remote places in the world: from one piano concert in Yutajé (Federal Amazonian Territory in Venezuela) while we observed the Halley comet, to a concert with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Munich on Cala S’Alguer beach in the heart of the Catalan Costa Brava. But there was a big difference between organizing these concerts and conducting a symphony

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