It doesn’t matter how strong your seedlings are if the garden you’re planting them in is covered in weeds. You have to weed the garden to get things to grow.
Ensemble directors necessarily spend a lot of time focusing on instructing technique, interpretation, musicality. These are your seedlings. But to see them grow and produce fruit, we have to weed the garden.
Correct bad habits. improve rehearsal behavior, set benchmarks for growth.
Weed the garden.