How do you conduct an orchestra?
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Published 2018-01-16
Yip Wing-sie, music director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta walked us through the world of an orchestra conductor.
All Comments (18)
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As someone who is looking into this for a later sprint in life, this was really interesting and informative because I can read sheet music but I never looked into how that all fits with conductors. Always assumed it was far less structured and more heavy on knowing your artists after tons of practice. Then, simply, methodically gesturing them towards the right and complete sound for the orchestra. Thank you!
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brilliant explanation of the gestures and whats involved. i loved the added animations as well. very helpful. i’m playing a conductor in a play and came here to learn to look like i know what i’m doing.
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Very insightful!
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Beautiful
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A lot of the work for the conductors is done before the performance
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Wow Very Nice
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This was great! However I’ve been to many symphonies and I rarely see anyone in the orchestra look at the conductor? Why is that?
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👍👍👍
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New world symphony coming in strong!
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I'm more dumfounded than ever!
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Take a look at the aurora orchestra. They can play mainly without a conductor. But then…..so can most orchestras. The correct term is musical director.
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..with all of these videos on conducting I've only seen one to tell you HOW MANY BEATS IS THE CONDUCTOR AHEAD, so far on a comment some one said 1 to 2 beats...
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I just watched Maestro. I came to this immediately because I failed to see and recognize the importance of a conductor.
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where is that @ 0:19 ?
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Second one to comment here, nice!
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Anyone know the song they use at 2:14?
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I don't believe they are needed for anything other than when to start playing and volume control. They don't even every look at the conductor just their sheet music.
