In the comedy-drama series Mozart in the Jungle, the president of the New York Symphony Gloria Windsor explains to the conductor why she doesn’t sing in public.
‘I’m not an artist like you people are. I’m just an amateur.’
It’s a common sentiment but the conductor in the film – Maestro Rodrigo De Souza – punctures the ‘just’ that so often precedes the word amateur when reples: ‘Amateur. You say that as if it was a dirty word or something, but “amateur” comes from the Latin word “
