I recently tried to explain to a non-musician friend what exactly a conductor does. Try it – it’s harder than you think: most musical ensembles, at least after the first rehearsal, don’t need a person keeping time. Any choir master will tell you that trying to act as the arbiter of rehearsal discipline is usually an uphill battle! So, what does a conductor do? I have been fortunate in my life to work with a handful of great conductors; those musicians whose very presence makes everyone in the room play and sing better. If I break down what it is they do, they manage to communicate and negotiate the nuances of interpretation through gesture, through body language, even through facial expressions.
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