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Re: Professional Conductors

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-09-20 16:53

Professional conductors know their music theory cold.

Most also have strong aural "rendering" skills and can play a score by mentally reading it. Many (Lorin Maazel, for example) have photographic memories. He can look at a score once and have a picture in his head, which he can play back or analyze at any time.

Maazel also has a strong sense of perfect pitch. He says he knows when to shifts gears in his car not by the speedometer or tachometer reading, but by the pitch of the engine.

Toscanini once noticed, during a loud orchestral tutti, that one of the second violinists had forgotten to remove his mute at the end of the previous movement.

Alfred Zetzer, the former Cleveland bass clarinetist, said that when he got a new mouthpiece, George Szell noticed it after a single note.

Ken Shaw

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