Klarinet Archive - Posting 001128.txt from 2000/10

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] A conductor
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:46:56 -0400

Not to beat this thread into the ground, but today I watched
Perlman & Yo-Yo Manplaying Beethoven with Barenboim at the piano. The
music was beautiful beyond words (IMO), but Barenboim was conducting
'part time' while seated at the piano.
I have no idea whether an orchestra of that caliber needs real-time
conducting; but from an audience's point of view, it was distracting
**to the max** and downright unpleasant to see the piano soloist
suddenly become a conductor, abandoning one body language for another,
stretching to be seen over the piano, and then to switch back to soloist
again.

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