How to Conduct an Orchestra

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We’ve all seen a conductor standing in front of an orchestra wielding a baton. All the baton waving might look random to the untrained eye, but there is meaning in every gesture. Gustavo Dudamel, the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, shows us how he guides the musicians using his body and eye contact.
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29 авг 2019

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@jacko8030 4 года назад

That’s definitely the accent I expect from a conductor

@notatrombonist6833 4 года назад

nice one

@bloubear2557 4 года назад

HAHAHAHA

@dangooseboost6101 4 года назад

That's cause of your good taste on tv shows ;)

@jilliandelrosario2847 4 года назад

i was lowkey expecting someone less famous for a guest... but GBS, HOW DID YOU ACQUIRE GUSTAVO DUDAMEL???

@kevinsteel7875 2 года назад

They asked and he agreed

@raycox4139 10 месяцев назад

Keep in mind, he is a product of El Sistema, a Colombian music program for street kids.

@YaYa-lj8ln 4 года назад

I love how passionate he is. I hope I find a job like that someday.

@foreverplaceholder 4 года назад

How to Conduct an Orchestra. Me: With electricity running through the intruments?

@snqoqo 3 года назад

H8w weird, that piano's starting to dance and it turned purple!

@rachieyim 4 года назад

Who wants two set violin to see this ?

@stoneminer4464 4 года назад

ME. See if it's sAcRiLeGiOuS or not

@walnut5203 4 года назад

If you can conduct slowly, you can conduct quickly

@stephenhu2000 4 года назад

@@stoneminer4464 given that most of this video is dudamel and history, i'd say it's legit musically

@alexmcmunn9390 4 года назад

@fredshoestrings4888 4 года назад

Yes, was thinking this all the way through

@thepiemaster0933 4 года назад

The Great Big Story: as a musician myself (violin) bringing in Dudamal was a FANTASTIC thing to do and I really like how you brought him in. He is one of the greatest

@plastique45 2 года назад

He's literally the worst conductor in the world.

@TheWizard45134 4 года назад

RIP For those people who never had orchestra in their school.

@dad2827 3 года назад

Rip me

@P0PG03S 2 года назад

"I fear I might be writing a Requiem for myself."

@MasonYTAoS 4 года назад

Who here is from an orchestra? No? Ok...

@timfrost2089 4 года назад

I gotchu brother. Cello is my way 👌

@MasonYTAoS 4 года назад

I play the violin myself

@ikhk5309 4 года назад

Tim Frost yes my dude first chair cellos unite

@Alex_Whatareyoudoing 4 года назад

Well not orchestra but cathedral choir, we work with orchestras tho 😁 I feel every conductor has a totally different style and it’s like a horse you need to learn how they work

@samykenz 4 года назад

Play violin

@sageobrien6776 4 года назад

As a conducting/composition student, I can say that this video is good, especially what with your conversation with gustavo dudamel, but you would need a whole video series to really go over conducting. The possibility's for conducting are infinite. (Great Big Story still did a good job though, so I'm not hating or anything.)

@chanyeols6thstewardessgirl684 4 года назад

Whenever I see classical stuff on youtube, I always think of twoset

@timfrost2089 4 года назад

Why are you on RU-vid WHEN YOU COULD BE PRACTICING LIKE LING LING?!? Jk me too 😂

@Virky404 4 года назад

i started waving my stick around and my furniture started floating.

@HowDoYouPronounceGIF 4 года назад

It's leviOsa, not leviosAR

@hakeem108 4 года назад

Broooo they actually got Gustavo Dudamel to do this interview wtf

@diorynovis 4 года назад

Add one more stick then you have chopsticks.

@benhaushalter5067 4 года назад

Conducting so many instruments by yourself can be scary at first. I remember feeling like I was going to pass out, but now I love it.

@abramporras7877 4 года назад

The conductor is a beast he knows everybodys parts and lets you know when to get it in

@bogdanchatsky6324 4 года назад

I really love the quality and montage of most of your video. You are truly outstanding channel on youtube, giving the knowledge in interesting manner, with style and individualistic approach. Thank you so much for your work!

@violaisreallycool 4 года назад

Love this video! Nice to see an orchestra related video on Great Big Story.

@raycox4139 10 месяцев назад

So, years ago I went to a conducting workshop (old band director here) and they told a story. To recognize music educators, the Chicago (maybe; large, major orchestra) invited high school band and orchestra conductors to lead the symphony. The program didn't last long because symphony musicians complained too much. It seems they liked the school conductors too much...

@sannekolind5523 4 года назад

Sometimes it just looks like the conductor is having a seizure

@A3Kr0n 4 года назад

It takes a very special person to stand in front of a bunch of people and wave a stick for a living.

@Choungie 4 года назад

You picked the best conductor, I love you for that

@shhtha 3 года назад

Gustavo seems like such a kind person

@Yj-zf5rd 4 года назад

I just got a great big story ad while watching a great big story video

@HichigoShirosaki1 2 года назад

Coordinating how loud certain groups of instruments sound, how fast they are, reining in one's that go out of sync, etc. It requires sone really good hearing and understanding how it needs to sound at any given point.

@mike_chr_ 4 года назад

Got a Great Big Story ad. Nice.

@carolynbangun5879 4 года назад

Here is some things my orchestra teacher does; First, he pats his chest very quietly so we know the tempo He will (sometimes) lean a bit on his left for conducting He is a (sorta) shy teacher. So when making an announcement he doesn’t put the mic to loud He gives us a cell phone/food party even tho food is not aloud in orchestra

@wahaha858 4 года назад

So they have a GBS ad in the beginning, the video itself as an ad, and an ad at the end. Ultimate gamer move.

@SilkyC 4 года назад

I could watch a conductor wield his/her baton all day long. ALSO ya'll got Dudamel?!?!?! Amaaaaazing

@Amonimus 4 года назад

Very passionate and dramatic speech. And doesn't answer the question at all.

@richardwilliams473 2 года назад

I believe the conductor is the luckiest man in the world: To be that close and personal with all those professional musicians in front of him !!!

@ivannovotny4552 4 года назад

Educational and informative, I learned something today and thank you for it.

@zebobez2715 4 года назад

Aha wow you guys actually got to interview Gustavo Dudamel. Bravo.

@user-wk8cf8wx1d 4 года назад

If you can conduct slowly, you can conduct quickly

@Jwellsuhhuh 2 года назад

wtf does that mean

@Tax_Collector01 4 года назад

Any (ex-)orchestra/band kids here? I played first violin, third row, outside chair.

@Andrew...00 4 года назад

viola, 5th desk, outside chair

@raychan3122 4 года назад

cello, 1st chair ;-)

@angjiapheng 4 года назад

I someday would like to have a video about conductor by showing comparison and difference of orchestra playing same music with and without conductor, as well as how conductor affects the outcome of a piece of music that looks the same on paper

@MunkyChunk 4 года назад

I got a Great Big Story ad on this video 😂😂 *ADVERTISEMENT 1000*

@CryzVoid 4 года назад

i dead*** got a great big story ad on a great big story video

@me_is_hobo 3 года назад

I’m case you’re curious, these are the composers that appeared in this 0:24: Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, Schubert, Mahler, STRAVINSKY

@gawrrr7721 4 года назад

I’ve played some of the pieces in the background. It gives me flashbacks from when the conductor was upset with the whole orchestra and flipped😣

@itsame_radey7240 3 года назад

this is so inspirational

@bigjoe33 4 года назад

30th! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS MORE THAN MOST RU-vid INFO CHANNELS!

@cyrus_p624 4 года назад

"a new conductor has like 20 seconds to earn the whole orchestra's respect or they won't follow him at all and play on their own" (Or something like that) -Twoset violin

@aisakataiga4880 4 года назад

Conductors are secretly wizards from hogwartz

@snaketown9352 4 года назад

When Dudamel is in a video, I click on it and I watch it.

@oranbrie 4 года назад

i know dudamel as that crazy Dvorak New World Symphony conductor lol

@caseygates2175 4 года назад

Great video! We just need to learn the difference between further and farther.

@vitorkk328 4 года назад

Well, this maestro is good... But not as good as my boy Bugs Bunny!

@charleswolfe619 4 года назад

Or Thomas Cat

@captprime9446 4 года назад

I think you mean LEOPOLD!!

@chellez29 3 года назад

I figured that! You have to work with your orchestra to get the sounds and the mood together! I would love to do this one day🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

@me_is_hobo 3 года назад

0:27 I love how this video DID mention Stravinsky

@Twilights 4 года назад

I got a great big story ad before this

@nazmulurrahmannazmul2681 4 года назад

Someone please name the background musics in this video.

@abhijeet_-xp3yx 4 года назад

Thanks,i will conduct an orchestra tomorrow 😃👍🏻

@Swisscats88 4 года назад

Ling Ling can conduct an orchestra and play every instrument at the same time.

@cspersky 4 года назад

New comentator? Love it

@London_miss234 4 года назад

Very lovely!

@violenthipshaking 4 года назад

In the Netherlands, we have a TV programme called Maestro, in which celebrities try to conduct an orchestra. In the first episodes, things turn out pretty bad.

@JonatasAdoM 4 года назад

Dudamel was at his prime when conducting the symphony of the new world to the pope

@onelmedina1349 4 года назад

I had the pleasure of being under his conduction. He is great , I love it .

@ionlygroommymy2cats Год назад

may i ask when and what orchestra you were in ?

@oktavian_ 4 года назад

What is the name of the song in the opening part of this video?

@tianhaoluo8417 4 года назад

Beethoven's symphony no.9, second movement

@oktavian_ 4 года назад

Tianhao Luo thank you so much 😊

@natekim8518 4 года назад

A discount version of the Scherzo mvmt from Beethoven 9

@oktavian_ 4 года назад

Nathan Kim thank you

@hiera1917 4 года назад

*”song”*

@emilioooo9678 Год назад

Whose idea was it to put the mozart vs salieri piece in the background?

@lgbaloni 4 года назад

TwoSetters?

@ethantamales 4 года назад

classical musician here, im ready for the worst edit: this was fantastically done. for all the other videos on the internet that portay musicianship so trashily, this is easily the best ive seen. thank you

@franzliszt9799 4 года назад

What surprised me the most is that the fact that they got Dudamel for this video

@Roy_100Malaeb 4 года назад

An ad about great big story came before watching

@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access 4 года назад

Welp, that's definitely me when I conduct an orcastra

@bsgrannydied 3 года назад

Wow thank you, I am now a Conductor!

@podgie10 4 года назад

All i know that they just need to wand there hand like a fairy god parent....

@seanseow1499 4 года назад

Ignorance

@XxxXxx-yh5gz 4 года назад

Bryson Adams rude

@francescosavi2196 3 года назад

Come on, it was funny

@JuiceQuica 4 года назад

I might meet Gustavo this season :)

@danielwalker2381 4 года назад

*I didn’t see the channel name and thought it was a HowToBasic video*

@anaiswatterson5733 4 года назад

I just got your ad. The one with a prosthetic lego arm.

@prestigedoggy7624 4 года назад

I personally play bass and violin just flexin really quickly

@tasyal7082 4 года назад

Awesomeeeee

@De-ii1yq 4 года назад

If u can conduct slowly you can conduct quickly

@darthjoneskrate4186 4 года назад

I just got a great big story ad

@spisee5445 4 года назад

I just saw a Great Big Story add

@maestrojen944 3 года назад

I conducted before it's so fun and humbling.

@burgernthemomrailer 4 года назад

me: *accidentally stubs toe* also me: *FUCKING DIES OF GANGRENE BECAUSE MEDICINE WAS SHITE*

@bunebone 3 года назад

Nice.

@zorrokitty5666 4 года назад

Cello gang where you at?

@shimonneustadt2775 4 года назад

What’s the name of the song?

@hiera1917 4 года назад

Shimon Neustadt not a song, a piece. Song has lyrics, pieces don’t. If it’s a piece with a choir it’s a choral work, with an orchestra, an orchestral work. So this ‘orchestral work’ is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Won’t tell you which movement though

@DbladeMedic 4 года назад

Now conduct dream theaters dance of eternity! Go!

@timmallette1888 4 года назад

♥️Dudamel

@hypercarspotters1227 4 года назад

who else had a great big story ad?

@alyssaporter2057 4 года назад

How many band kids are here?

@ethanchaparro2028 4 года назад

🙋🏽‍♂️

@MariaMartinez-researcher 4 года назад

Choir here. Had a music teacher who managed to make schoolgirls sing Victoria's Ave Maria and Hassler's Cantate Domino *by heart,* as we couldn't read music scores.

@christophermatthews3977 4 года назад

@thegreatnexus4207 4 года назад

Ohh Boyy.. Here Comes Those Ad's.

@baffffg3308 4 года назад

Yes

@SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-lt3vy 4 года назад

i thought this was a howtobasic video for a second

@pinecone27 4 года назад

My life. I got a great big story ad on a great big story video. Edit Omg I got the add at the end of the video to UUXNCUCIIUNWCNHW

@DaPug2176 4 года назад

@AnaHernandez-hl6yr 4 года назад

A Venezuelan Maestro!!

@hironjyoti1286 4 года назад

Your adds are in your video itself 🤔😅

@angadskate28 4 года назад

How did à thai power company sponsor this video

@poeks 4 года назад

I got your add on your own video

@rxzon1209 4 года назад

I got a Great Big Story advertisement

@IziFiz 4 года назад

Playing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Mvt. 4 in high school currently, and let me tell you without my conductor, we as a symphony orchestra would be screwed. xD

@andreiacaldas8922 4 года назад

Lindo

@jamesbca8032 4 года назад

Oh my gawd

@ats1029 8 месяцев назад

The thing is that you get presentated as the Director and you get recognition by the work of others. Anyone who Knows about music could do that, it Doesnt seems a Difficult thing..