Klarinet Archive - Posting 001079.txt from 2000/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] A conductor
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:48:20 -0400

At 02:07 PM 10/20/2000 -0500, Ed Lacy wrote:
>What do musicians want from conductors? All they want is someone who will
>enable them to play at the highest level of which they are capable. Boards
>of directors of orchestras never understand this. They always stupidly
>assume that musicians will favor a certain conductor because they are
>looking for someone who will be "easy" on them. Nothing could be farther
>from the truth.

What musicians want from a conductor is someone who will interpret the
piece in EXACTLY the same way THEY would if they had the baton!
Unfortunately, that means your average band or orchestra has about 65 to
100 DIFFERENT ideas about what makes a good conductor!

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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