Encore: The spiked chair which began conductor Umberto Clerici's life in music - ABC listen

Encore: The spiked chair which began conductor Umberto Clerici's life in music - ABC listen

The chief conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra on the chair of spikes which accompanied his early musical career, and why he doesn't tone down his Italian self for work (R)   During his Suzuki lessons in Turin, Italy, a young Umberto Clerici was sitting up straight on a chair full of spikes, lest his posture slip. Umberto chose the cello as his instrument, mainly because it wasn’t the violin, which sounded like a cat in a washing machi…