Up to and around about the Second World War, conductors were invariably dictators -- these tyrannical figures who would rehearse, not just the orchestra as a whole, but individuals within it, within an inch of their lives.
第二次世界大戦以前の指揮者というと みんな独裁者でした 専制君主のような存在で オーケストラ全体ばかりでなく 個々のメンバーの生活の細部まで指図していました