If you go to an orchestra concert, it’s pretty easy to figure out what most of the people onstage are contributing to the overall experience. The violinists and cellists move their bows back and forth ...

Some conductors might direct their orchestras ... Everyone else is playing out of tune, bows scratching across their instruments’ strings. Many of their faces appear pained as they struggle ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Raphaël Pichon has quickly become one of the most interesting conductors not just in his specialty of period instruments, but in classical music. The conductor Raphaël Pichon.

The musicians playing them had no idea that they came from their conductor — until now. "I'm not saying that good instruments make the orchestra; the orchestra is made by great musicians.