
What Does a Conductor Really Do?
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
The Choices of Conductors
A modern orchestra is pretty locked in at whatever the pitch the oboe player prefers, which nowadays in modern orchestras is between 440 and 443. So that's one massive choice a conductor would have to make. In those chords that you heard, how long would you like them to be played? Short and crisp or long and majestic?" These aren't binary questions by the way. There are dozens of options within the poles I just described"
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