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Re: Minimum requirements for a conductor

Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2004-06-24 01:32

I'm with msloss and David S-- a good ear and musical leadership. The former artistic director of the orchestra I am in found a young and promising high school senior to be his student assistant. This young man, as it turned out, knew the scores, knew what he wanted to hear, and knew how to articulate these things to the orchestra. A couple of years later he became associate conductor, and he conducted last season as we looked for a new a.d. Anyway, by the age of 20 he had earned the respect of an orchestra whose members are virtually all older than he is, many of them twice his age or more. We razz him a bit for being a bit wet behind the ears, but we also go with him during rehearsal. Physical conducting technic can be important, but I actually pay more attention to how they run a rehearsal.

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