what this conductor does is actually correct. conductors always make their gestures beforehand, so the instrument players can play the sound, the way conductor shows them.
@@MonoBleedingEdge it is true that conductor show gestures like crescendos and decrescendos before the eu happen in the music, but the beats are supposed to happen together 😂
Bernstein was just too cool for school. He loses the baton, laughs it off, 5 seconds later appears with another one, like it was nothing. Smooth as hell.
@@user-op6vy3gg2b They're the ones responsible for the whole interpretation of the piece. It's not like he just hits play and the orchestra does the rest. Just like any management position gets a bigger paycheck.
As a conductor myself, I can relate to this a whole ton. I've dropped my baton on several occasions while conducting, and it isn't really an uncommon thing. Conductors do it all the time. But it's still funny!
Once during rehearsal, my conductor made a gesture so violent he threw his sheet music out of his music stand and onto the viola section. It was hilarious, specially considering that the viola section was made up of 3 violas.
1:04 is actually just the conductor being ahead of the symphony for some reason. Some famous conductors do this for whatever reason but it helps the players anticipate events in the song
No it’s not. That conductor looks like he has no idea what he’s doing. He’s literally 2 seconds ahead of the orchestra, it’s impossible to play off that.
HAHAH my conductor has lost his baton at a concert last year, he threw it up and tried catching it about 3 times until it flew in between the violists and cellists 😂
I play in a symphony orchestra for a living. Once during a rehearsal the conductor baton's got stuck in his stand and flew in the air, and I yelled "EXPILLIARMUS" Nobody laughed.
A fun historic fact: Beethoven often conducted his own music. Later in his life when he was deaf, he still sometimes insisted on doing so, which went terribly. And then there were a few concerts where organizers humoured him by letting him conduct, but placed another conductor somewhere behind him out of his field of view that the orchestra was actually playing on.
Some of these were not "fails" but just planned comedy routines. The Beethoven 5 thing is interesting. Perhaps the conductor was planning to give several beats for free so that the orchestra could see the tempo before they come in. That work is legendary for being hard to start. Solti used to give three full bars in 1 before bringing the orchestra in but he conducted the 3 beats as though he was in 4. It worked, but it isn't what one is "supposed to do".
This is more of a style than anything- many ensembles begin after the conductor gives the initial cue. The delay is almost the orchestra reacting to itself, as it chooses to be more independent of the conductor's time. Notice that the ensemble cuts off directly in time with him though, before again delaying the entrance to the next phrase.
Timothy...thanks for the laughs!!! I typed in Symphony Conductors are Weird....and this popped up!! I do think conductors have an aura of weirdness around them!!! 🤣🤣🤣
The Beethoven piece was not a mistake on the conductors part. That was completely intentional. Orchestral conductors often conduct ahead of the orchestra so the players can react to what they see.
They always do. You can conduct with less anticipation in a small space with a few musicians or singers only..also the 5th doesn't start on the first beat in the bar. Look at the score..
Last October, my band teacher accidentally threw his baton while we were rehearsing. The baton hit my stand a little bit and it caused my music to fall out of my stand, and the flute player next to me gave the baton back to him. I didn't see him lose his baton because I was so focused on my music, but I felt it hitting my stand.
Hell, that’s nothing! As a first violinist with the Iceland S.O. My bow hand got so sweaty I lost my bow, made a grab for it in the air which made it summersault right into the first row of the audience. Fortunately the bow survived. The kind man passed it back to me and I carried on as if nothing happened. Weirdest thing ever.
Please save me from my own ignorance. I absolutely love classical music because it is so beautiful, but I am no expert and have zero knowledge of all the technical stuff people always comment on. How on earth does the conductor conduct if the orchestra members/singers never look at him? LOL I know they can't do without him - telepathy perhaps?
The conductors job isn't always as essential as it may seem. Some conductors like to let the orchestra conduct itself once they get going. But to answer your question, most people are watching the conductor using their peripheral vision, while their head faces the music in front of them.
The conductor does most of his work during rehearsal. Most good musicians know when to look at the conductor for cues or changing tempi. Does that make sense?
They look but it's a quick stare, if you look on videos with close-ups you can see that the people look up very often. In opera they look all the time because they have to suit up to singers which only the conductor see and only he knows how to match it up together. But often pieces from Classical Era like Mozart is conducted by the concert master and there is no real need to look. If the conductor is extremely bad and incompetent people don't bother to look either. But if there is a real maestro.conducting he requires eye contact all the time. It's intimidating as hell.
Lol that first one isn't a fail, its a total win. The conductor was completely prepared, he didn't stop conducting, and midscore, he took out a spare baton that he had prepared before the performance.
I wonder how some orchestras follow some conductors and if a problem they apparently get in and follow the leader. Some of these conductors have a pretty high ego and at a dress rehearsal of a professional orchestra, one was pretty obnoxious putting down players who had to sit there and take his snips and then bullying the pianist it do it his way. While the pianist appeared to agree, he basically did his own thing at the concert and good on him. Needless to say the orchestra voted not to have this conductor return again
So Bernstein drops his baton (an everyday occurrence) and WITHOUT BREAKING THE PHRASE OR LOSS OF GESTURE, seamlessly continues conducting while simultaneously retrieving a backup baton and continuing. How is that possibly considered a fail? Mediocrity, I do not absolve you.
@А ну чики брики и в дамки! I don’t know 0.41. I don’t recognise 0.48 either, but it is from the TV comedy programme Mr Bean, so it may not be a real piece of music at all. 1.19 is Cio Cio San’s aria “Un bel di” (“One Fine Day”) from the opera Madama Butterfly by Puccini.
Not a fail, but you could have included the one where Gustavo Dudamel is trying to throw a spell on the orchestra. I believe it's while conducting Beethoven's 5th
