Daniel Harding, a part-time Air France pilot, flew the Santa Cecilia orchstra from Rome to Paris, pausing to take a New York Times crew on board – just for the record.
In the cabin, the musicians cheered their leader on. They joked about what to call him. Maestro? Pilot? Captain? They passed the two-hour journey with some music, singing a rendition of “Volare.” At one point, the clarinetist Alessandro Carbonare performed an excerpt from Puccini’s “Tosca” from his seat in row 19.
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