What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 5:05 pm
Everybody in an orchestra knows their parts, right? They aren't improvising are they?
What's he (or she) doing up there!?
What's he (or she) doing up there!?
Red Mosquito
What does a conductor do?
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Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 5:08 pm
What does a football coach do? They’re not even on the field!
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 5:09 pm
Is that a good analogy?
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 5:15 pm
Up on stage they're like a cross between a metronome and a director. But what the conductor does on stage (or in the pit or whatever) is just a small part of what a conductor does. Yeah a coach is a good comparison for the rest of what they do
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 5:18 pm
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Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 5:22 pm
What about Train conductors?
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 5:24 pm
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 5:52 pm
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Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 6:09 pm
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Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 7:26 pm
What about heat conductors?
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 8:40 pm
I’ll tell you what a conductor doesn’t do: A conductor doesn’t just do something half-assed.
That’s what a semiconductor is for.
That’s what a semiconductor is for.
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 9:39 pm
Also, they go over the music before it’s presented and make their own personal adjustments. Not to the actual notes per se, but other ways to make them flourish. For example, if a particular part has been traditionally played by flutes, they may change it to where clarinets are playing it. Or if it traditionally has 13 trumpets and 5 trombones, they may change it to 9 trumpets and 9 trombones. Just different ways they can put their own touch on the music.tragabigzanda wrote:They’re:
1. cuing each individual instrument/section
2. Controlling tempo changes
3. Controlling dynamic changes
Just because it’s written in the page doesn’t mean 20 violas instinctively know what 64bpm feels like, or how hard to hit a transition to mezzo forte.
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 9:47 pm
Bammer wrote:I’ll tell you what a conductor doesn’t do: A conductor doesn’t just do something half-assed.
That’s what a semiconductor is for.
Re: What does a conductor do?
Posted: Sat June 04, 2022 9:49 pm
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