The profession of a symphony orchestra conductor is one of the most mysterious and incomprehensible for the uninitiated. Despite the fact that music schools have conducting departments, real skill, as in medieval craft guilds, is passed on to students from mentors, senior colleagues, who also learned from predecessors who were familiar with the greatest maestros and composers of the 19th century. You will learn about the secrets, hardships, everyday life and triumphs of this profession from the book of maestro John Mauceri, a man who went through a lifelong school and conducted the most famous orchestras around the world. Published in Russian for the first time.