Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.