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Usually I have seen the ORCHESTRA players (and professionals to boot)
harass an unknown conductor. and I have also seen amateur players get on
his/her 'high horse' to disagree with conductors in an argumentative
manner.
Dear All
A couple of weeks ago, I
The photo in the score reminds of a similar occasion when I was conducting
our youth orchestra in a concert at the Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester.
I opened the score to find a copy of an old photograph of me, in rather
ill-advised pose to which some wit had attached a
I must say that I feel fortunate that the conductors of the amateur band and
orchestra I play in are fine gentlemen and good leaders. Of course they have
their foibles--who doesn't?
I think we should also pay attention out part of the bargain. Conductors have a
lot of pressure on them. In effect
It seems to me that the experiences of different musicians regarding the
quality of conductors depends less on the actual quality of the conductor
than on the attitude of the individual musician.
Yes, at times there can be tensions between a conductor and an orchestra.
But it is necessary to
Yes, they do have a lot of pressure on them, even nothing
can be heard from their evening long solo, except some
grunting noise of body escapes on the rear end (thus a
lot of pressure).
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David Lamb wrote:
Another great source is the Chicago Mahlerites. Go to
www.chicago-mahlerites.org and visit their archives. There you will
find a rich trove of articles about all kinds of Mahleria.
But be careful. You know what the French say: Honi soit qui Mahler
pense.
--
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Boyles law, the greater the external pressure the greater the volume of hot
air. (with apologies to Flanders and Swann)
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Having been in the situation of rehearsing under a conductor who would go
into long discourse about the back ground of a piece of music, who
commissioned it, why this or that part was important to the person who
commissioned the work and so forth, I was reminded of a story attributed to
Farkas at
I've always heard this told with Andre Previn as the conductor.
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Most conductors of amateur groups stop everytime they want to make a single
comment
Recently had a most pleasant experience in this regard. I'm in the US,
and we had a Russian guest conductor who knew about 20-words of
English, and these he used most sparingly. I was wiped out after each
I was once threatened with dismissal for a deliberate set of clams the 3rd horn
made
I will not say here what happened to that 3rd horn
Please, you can go ahead and tell us where his head is buried so his
family can have closure.
Y'know they found Jimmy Hoffa, right?
~Geronimo~
Clevenger told me of a prominent conductor who asked that the sound of
the horns be more like trees, to which he responded: Does that mean
louder?
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