Klarinet Archive - Posting 000857.txt from 2000/06

From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Conductors--Rant
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:25:57 -0400

Someone (I forgot who) wrote:
> > I'm oftentimes struck at how little the players actually bother to look
> at the conductor.

Looking at the conductor can be dangerous under the right
circumstances - a group I play with recently performed Rhapsody in
Blue. The conductor was adamant in trying to conduct the opening
gliss. In the first rehearsal, I started the run up from the g and
she gave beat 4 of that measure - the sound heard was not a gliss, it
was me swallowing my reed:-).

The conductor solved the problem once and for all at the
performance - the walls were white, she was waving the traditional
white baton, and wearing something with long white sleeves. My
depth perception under those conditions is sufficiently poor that I
couldn't pick out the down beat from the other motions no matter
what I did.
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
1750 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 641o6-1453
email: dikarius@-----.EDU
http://uhsweb.edu/physio

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