Klarinet Archive - Posting 000905.txt from 2003/06

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <patricia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Left, Right or mixed handed?/Stephanie
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:30:13 -0400

Stephanie Cox wrote:

>Question. I had a professor tell me that it was wrong
>to conduct with my left hand (told us to conduct, and
>i just naturally started with my left arm). Is this
>wrong? I didn't think it was......but according to her...
>
>
Stephanie, left handed conducting is normally discouraged by instructors
in music education and other programs. The reason I was given by a
teacher whose name I now forget, is that the players are used to seeing
people doing it right handed, and having the entire beat pattern
reversed, or beat with the left hand, is confusing to them.

And I only thought conductors were confusing because they were making it
up as they went along! ;-)

Patricia Smith

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