Musical Instruments and Conducting
Discussions on conducting: orchestral, choral, etc...
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Nothing short of wonderful Pianists demonstrate proper conducting technique
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antares86
RIP Maestro Fabiano Monica has passed away https://www.ecodiparma.it/2017/09/01/scomparso-maestro-fabiano-monica-grande-artista-direttore-dorchestra/
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Ettore
http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/spettacolo/bergamo-direttore-d-orchestra-jeffrey-tate-stroncato-da-un-malore-a-74-anni_3074804-201702a.shtml
Bernstein’s grade card http://library.curtis.edu/bernstein-leonard-grade-card_3/
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Thesimon
Archival Footage of Artur Rodzinski Rare video where one can see Artur Rodzinski, Clemens Krauss, Richard Strauss, Vladimir Horowitz, Leopold Stokowski, Frederick Stock, George Gershwin, Jos...
Terrible video, but you can see some of the greatest performers of the last century
Russia, military plane crashes. Red Army Choir on board. Moscow: malfunction or pilot error, but terrorism not ruled out. http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2016/12/25/news/russia_aereo_scompar...
http://video.repubblica.it/edizione/napoli/muti-ai-ragazzi-del-conservatorio-non-leggete-libri-muovete-il-braccio/261380/261707. What do you think? And all those books on piano technique?
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antares86
Conducting technique: Carlos Kleiber's lesson http://direzionedorchestra.com/direzione-orchestra-lezione-kleiber/
I heard news that at the conservatory in Brussels, admissions for the Orchestral Conducting course require the candidate to conduct a composition following a CD of their own choice. Here it...
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Ettore
Franco Ferrara, the Maestro who fell from Anton Giulio Onofri's podium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfFd_c7vk24&feature=youtu.be Beautiful document
A LETTER ON ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING by Franz Liszt [...] The works, that is, for which I publicly confess my admiration and predilection, belong in the most part to those which the more or les...
"Naive" and useless stunt: making the orchestra perform in jeans instead of the tailcoat uniform that earned them a presence on RAI in the PD melting pot on Saturday nights (these are memora...
http://www.raiscuola.rai.it/articoli/wilhelm-furtw%C3%A4ngler-la-lezione-interpretativa/5074/default.aspx “Now: he was certainly subjective in making music insofar as every measure paced by...
I am sharing a list of the greatest symphonic performers: Even if incomplete and in random order (let's say in alphabetical order by name), a young conductor cannot ignore this list; I will...
This video is very interesting; the quality of the orchestra of "recent graduates" is impressive, and referring to Boulez as conductor, one must recognize that although he is "pedantic," he...
The crazy night of Michele Gamba, conductor at La Scala with only twenty minutes' notice http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/La-folle-notte-di-Michele-Gamba-direttore-orchestra-Scala-c...
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Ettore
http://www.rsi.ch/news/vita-quotidiana/cultura-e-spettacoli/Kurt-Masur-addio-6609823.html
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pianoexpert
http://m.repubblica.it/mobile/r/repubblicatv/edizione/milano/milano-la-lezione-show-di-muti-agli-studenti-del-conservatorio/217353/216549 ... listen to what he says about counterpoint!
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pianoexpert
http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/15_novembre_06/bacchettate-muti-e656d636-845e-11e5-b29e-3b4e1335d833.shtml The outburst on the occasion of the opening of the museum exhibiting Toscanini's...
Martin Scorsese will direct a film about the life of Leonard Bernstein www.internazionale.it/notizie/2015/10/31/martin-scorsese-girera-un-film-sulla-vita-di-leonard-bernstein What do you thi...
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LucaCavaliere
https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/200?a=facebook&c=true
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Frank
http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/2014/07/13/morto-direttore-orchestra-lorin-maazel_44022dd6-347e-445b-a56d-9643b8b5563c.html
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About 40 years ago, on May 28, 1974, in a packed Royal Albert Hall in London, the Portsmouth Sinfonia orchestra held a concert. What's strange about it? They didn't know how to play. http://...
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Frank
Take just a few minutes to watch this video, it is necessary. A "serious complaint" from Joo regarding the logistics of the Sala Grande at the Parco della Musica... https://www.facebook.com/...
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Terenzio
