(May 14, 2021 at 6:14 am)Brian37 Wrote: Bottom line, the way I see conductors is just mere sign language for each segment of the orchestra/symphony/band. My mind knows there are a language of hand jestures that mean something to the musicians watching the conductor, but I was simply posting this to admit, I couldn't understand it to save my life.
All I have is my layperson's lame attempt to make sense of it.
Conductors look to me, like some desperate kidnap victim who escaped and is trying to flag down a passing motorist to save them.
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It's in the Wikipedia article that you linked. Fucking read it.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
