Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Recitative -- The Mentoring Environment of the Ensemble -- Acknowledgments -- Arioso -- Mentoring Defined -- The Renaissance Bottega -- Our Early Mentors -- The "Why?" of Mentoring -- A Personal Word -- Our Reason for Being -- Aria -- 1. Listening for the Voice -- Framing the Mentoring Environment -- Generativity -- The Power of the Mentor -- The Conductor-Mentor and the Ensemble-Protégé -- Are Mentors Born or Built? -- 2. Hearing the Voice -- Beginning the Mentoring Process and Relationship -- The Mentor as Leader -- The Ongoing Process of Generativity -- The Mentoring Environment -- The Ensemble Mentoring Environment -- Why Mentor, Why Protégé ? -- 3. Responding to the Voice -- Moving to Mentoring -- The Imperative of Interconnectedness -- Skill Set -- The Protégé and the Mentor -- What We Learn and What We Do -- The Primary Ethical Obligation of Mentors -- Guidelines as the Mentor Begins -- 4. Refining the Voice -- Lessons from Greatness -- Locate Greatness -- Mentoring to Greatness -- The Continuous Mentor -- The Ensemble as Mentor -- Life and the Question "Why?" as Mentor -- References -- About The Author.