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Old 02-22-2007, 02:09 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I always have stuff happen with batons in concert with MYS.

A couple of years ago, I was using a longer-than-usual baton to conduct Rhapsody in Blue. At one point towards the very end, I gave a very strong downbeat and the laws of physics took over. My hand came down faster than the weakest part of this long baton could stand and the top 3/4 of the stick went sailing towards the trombone section while the handle stayed in my hand.

This last Rite of Spring show, in the middle of the Danse Sacrale, I clipped my music stand and the damned thing fairly disintegrated and I was, once again, left with the handle in my hand. I threw the thing to the ground, disgusted, and just went au naturel for the rest of it. A little boy in the audience, came up to me during the bows and brought the handle to me as the audience showed their appreciation to him. I laughed and gave it back to him. He turned out to be the son of our board president who later returned it to me because he insisted it become an MYS relic!

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Ah, so that's what happened? Funny stuff. Say, are you doing Viva City this year? It's kind of a shame they won't let me because I can't fit orchestra/band into my schedule the rest of this year (well, i have to graduate). Oh well. Last year went well.
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Old 02-22-2007, 02:42 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Manny,

Learn from the master! I noticed Lenny had a spare ready to go on his stand!

you know, in all honesty, I haven't really thought of that *duh* hehe
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Hi Manny,

I have been try to broaden my horizons a little, so I have watching my Leonard Bernstein dvd's quite attentively. However, Mr. Bernstein makes this gesture with his baton and I really can't figure out what it means. Maybe you can clarify this for me.

Excerpt from Sibelius 2nd Symphony in D.
Video Sibelius 2nd Symphony in D (excerpt) - Leonard, Bernstein, NY, Philharmonic, Sibelius - Dailymotion Share Your Videos

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Thanks for posting that video link;
On the same page was a link to:

Video Leonard Bernstein - Journey into Jazz - Leonard, Bernstein, NY, Philharmonic, Schuller - Dailymotion Share Your Videos

Gunther Schuller conducting NY Phil in "Journey Into Jazz"
with Bernstein narrator. Features "Don Ellis" on trumpet.
I'd never heard of this piece. It's sort of a take off on
Prokofiev's "Peter & the Wolf".

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My junior high band director used to keep a spare baton or two on his music stand - so that he could fire his baton at the recalcitrant percussion section when they misbehaved
Yeah, those guys deserve it -- they never pay attention

My intermediate school BD used a screwdriver to conduct a few times...Once, it went sailing out of his hand and narrowly missed a horn player.

Thanks for sharing that Bernstein clip. I just loved his smile that he flashed soon after dispatching his baton into the second violins. That was so classic.


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Re: Question on conducting
Saturday night I attended the symphony here in Colorado Springs.

On the last note of the first piece (a Cherubini overture), the conductor got so excited with the cut-off that he knocked his stand over and nearly took out the principal viola

I am fairly certain that Cherubini did not write in a "stand crash" at the end of his score for percussive effect
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