And from the other hand, being in the opera theater, experiencing lights went down and all of this mystic atmosphere. Conductor coming on and raising his hands and something starts to sound and happen and then this beautiful music.And then, you know, poor Tannhauser died at the end of his crying, you know.
Orchestra could do without conductor . Conductor without orchestra is just moving your arms looking like, well, never mind, a crazy person.So this is-- that's why it's mystical.
the reverend. "Who gets to decide who the vermin is?" Mengele closed his eyes and raised his arm like an orchestra orchestra conductor , waving an invisible baton."It is better for all the world if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, society can prevent
I was playing myself in that orchestra. The conductor who actually was my teacher, my first teacher, did not come to rehearsal for some reason. And we thought, well-- I actually thought, why should be go home?
Is that what he's called? The conductor ? Yeah, I don't know. That guy was having a blast.
About 50 people in the pit of the Wang Center. So conductor comes out and they have their own conductor with them of course. We do our first rehearsal and we have lunch and we come back.
you know, to have their music be background music at Google. The conductor -- Nathaniel: Or in a book. Edwin: Or in a book. Yeah. The conductor , Daniel Barenboim kind of left the country because he was so offended by hearing classical music as background music
But the first was probably Ron Mahan. He was my choir conductor in junior high. And I remember at the end of my eighth grade year, which I think, for most people, but definitely for me, was particularly traumatic--
I helped the director. I helped a conductor . I looked after singers.
and it's just this whole crazy mishmash of things that you have access to as a record producer. But as a conductor and a concert promoter, you can't-- it's very hard to get all of these elements together. I mean, just the demands of the soloists themselves, there's just so many different languages that they need to sing in and so many sort of vocal traditions
And it's not Carnegie Hall, it's anywhere. And people think the conductor is here in the middle and just moving, but no, not at all. And we need a lot of cues from the conductor , and hopefully, we had some time to rehearse and say, hey, at this moment, can you actually give me
or studying how one writes for the instruments so they work well in performance. And as a conductor , I think you understand what you're conducting better if you've sort of put your mind into the composer's mind. So they're very different skills that you sort of have to cultivate separately, but they do feed into each other in a very handy sort of way.
and using this instrument of the motor and all of the technology is very important for the performance. Is there a single conductor ? Is there someone with a baton who is sort of running that timeline?
It's really the other big piece. He was a conductor . He was a composer.
Dark is the day. And then seeing the conductor try to hold it together and losing, and me try to hold it together. By the time you get through that song, I know that the night must end, I know that the sun will rise.
Please welcome to the stage Mr Philip Glass. And the master conductor of this evening is going to be Mike Hawley. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about him before he takes the stage.
So in the meantime, orchestra could do without-- I mean, conductor can't do without orchestra. Orchestra could do without conductor . Conductor without orchestra is just moving your arms looking like, well, never mind, a crazy person.
But I think that most important is this mystical chemistry what happens between conductor and orchestra, and then of course conductor and orchestra and audience. Because this is another extremely important, crucially important part of what we do in music.
And some orchestras-- you're prepared to correct something and it's perfect. And then the conductor still corrects it. Yes, yes. You know, what-- you know, I mean.
But you know, but it's from both sides, you know. If orchestra feels the conductor doesn't trust them, the orchestra doesn't trust the conductor . If the orchestra doesn't trust the conductor , then-- for me, I was playing in the orchestra myself.
But I think if the conductor -- I was a trumpet player at that point and moment in orchestra. When the conductor -- it's the worst thing for conductor was to stop and say, well, please follow me. And as soon as the conductor did that-- The game's over.
another instrument group. And it's-- and it's very interesting, I think, also for orchestra to be part of this organism. And of course the conductor , me, I sometimes feel like a drawing with the colors, with this great orchestra we have.
And-- Obviously, yes. If you can't tell all ready. And that allows the conductor , and in turn the orchestra, to be very responsive to the impulses on stage.
So he was involved in the classical music scene in London in the late '70s, early 1980s. A very well known conductor , did some writing music on his own. When the BBC needed to broadcast Charles and Diana's, wedding for instance, Clive was the one they called on to arrange the score for the broadcaster.
people. I did the movies with different people. uh not so much with orchestras. There was one conductor who liked my work a lot and he Dennis Russell Davies of the 11 symphony of working 11 now of the 10 cities I've completed he
I recently had the conductor who simply said, there's a gap.
fins like a conductor .
And if the trumpets are playing, now they're in charge. Now this conductor he's just sitting back puffing on the cigarette like every ten minutes. He says oh, the dancers are up in the air on bar 47.
It's this hero reflex. And these conductors -- every single great conductor that I played for-- understood this and engaged my hero reflex in doing this. And that's why I wanted to explain this.
don't have a conductor beating the beat in the front of us you actually have to not only know your part you have to know
not that a semi-conductor runs faster, it is not that the brakes are better, it-it there-there is not an obvious way to measure why we love Mark-Mark Rothko and we leave thousands artists
more like being a conductor of an orchestra and the the conductor of the orchestra may knows how to play piano
And, of course, any orchestra, any orchestral work, the San Francisco Symphony needs a great leader and the conductor of this project is our very own conductor , Edwin Outwater. Ron: Hi, Edwin. Edwin: Hello.
Who do you run over first? The answer is the conductor . Business before pleasure. So that's kind of this -- Edwin: And it goes on and on.
It consists of two conductors that form a loop.
It's really two conductors , an inner wire and an outer shield held a precise distance apart.
And after conductors and STI merged at the end of 2002, STI continued to use the Kinder heater for its thin film
of the conductors , in theory, you could basically light up one little cell that had neon gas or some other kind of gas
Which was this question of why were certain conductors so much more famous and effective than others. There were some conductors who would come out and virtually with no work, no effort, nothing came out of their mouth and we in the orchestra were just jumping up, cranked up in our seats, eager to play for these guys.
What do I care? But the top conductors made it impossible to do anything else but that.
What do I care? And the better conductors , Bernard Haitink is classic for this.
amazing people both the conductors they have guest conductors that come in and the guest artists that you're working with and the opportunities of just the
But silica is a poor conductor and rubber itself is an insulator.
They raised enough money to hire the conductor who would come and conduct them.
You have never met the conductor before.
And copper is a good conductor of heat.
This show is musical director and conductor Zalmen Mlotek, who's-- Yay.
It actually is a very good conductor , if you wanted to make wire, but it's also-- explodes when it touches water, and there's
So I mean, the impact he had everywhere he went was quite extraordinary. That was just as a conductor . He was also the greatest music educator I've ever seen.
And you can actually-- the conductor , you can see from stage, right?