Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-05-17 12:46
The conductor may not have control over the makeup of the ensemble, but on occasion must be willing to tell some groups to sing out while others (trumpets...) should stifle themselves. Ideally, a good conductor will try to arrange to do a sound test rehearsal in the performance hall before the performance. Either the conductor or an assistant will wander around the hall to see how the sound of the various instruments carries and balances in that particular room. As all pipe organists know, the room is part of the organ. Same for a band or an orchestra. Sound checks aren't perfect, because adding the audience (all those big soft bodies) muffles and quiets the sound, but the sound check can give a good idea of whether the balance of instruments is right -- and it can be very different in that room than in the regular rehearsal room. If the trumpets overwhelm everything else in the sound check rehearsal, then they'll do it in the fully-attended concert, too.
Lelia
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