There’s an affability between Wilson and the players, many of whom he’s had relationships with for two decades. (“I feel very much as if I’m one of them,” he said in an interview later.) “We want to be in that very demanding, high-achieving environment, where most of us, 90 percent of the time, feel like we’re impostors. Wilson aims “for a different kind of homogeneity,” Mills said. “There’s plenty of sizzling vibrato,” said Charlie Lovell-Jones, another leader of the orchestra, making “a sound you can chew.”

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