Re: what are conductors thinking?


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Posted by religious experience on March 07, 2001 at 21:30:51:

In Reply to: what are conductors thinking? posted by in disbelief.... on March 06, 2001 at 20:20:40:

I was in a Youth Orchestra playing in a Festival in a cathedral at an ivy league school, when half way through Brahm's 2nd symphony a telephone began to ring somewhere in the cathedral, it was fairly faint but continued for several minutes at which point the conductor (a real hard ass and i'm glad i'm done with him) stopped the piece and began yelling at anyone to take the phone off the hook and refused to start the piece again until it stopped. Three or four minutes later it stopped and we resumed the concert, but for someone who had always been thaught that no matter how badly a performance is going you just suck it up and keep going, it was one of the most unbelievable things i'd ever seen.


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