Conductor James Levine on wildly gesticulating conductors: “If your orientation is to watch the conductor, you get your aural sense interfered with in a way that is not completely controllable and conscious — because you see the conductor gesturing in a way that shows something about his feeling about the passage. And this, unconsciously, you measure against what you hear. And I think the most satisfying pieces that I hear live are usually conducted by conductors who have a very clear-cut idea of what their function is at a rehearsal and what their function is at a concert.”
I listened to this on my way to my lesson. Pretty interesting.
05.04.11 @ 20:22
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