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Video examples of conductors

Ran across this amazing TED video that shows video clips of several orchestral conductors, each with their own style. Fascinating stuff! Every choral conductor should watch this and absorb it, because more than hand-waving skills or musicality, sorting out the relationship between director and chorus is the hardest nut to crack when you're shooting for the best music you can make. The techniques can be learned, but unless you have the right philosophy and understand how to empower your singers, you will always plateau at a lower level than you desire.
Take a look:
If you're a director, which one are you most like? If you're a singer, send this video to your director!
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Nice find, Tom. Something that's quite striking is the willingness to critique conductors at this level such as Muti.
Mind you, there are interviews with orchestral musicians, when asked about what they want from a conductor, that don't talk about meaning or beauty or any of that guff, but just 'give me the down-beat then sod off' (or less polite versions of the same!).
liz
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