great conductor comments March 12, 2006
Posted by Charles Noble in : the orchestra world, add a commentI’m going to keep track of some of the better comments I’ve heard from the podium in this space - keep watching for updates.
- “the phrase should be nutritionally replete”
- “it should be drug induced, flute enhanced”
- “the attack should sound like a Hummer hitting a baby deer”
- “make it dirty - in Swedish, we say snuskigt“
- “nien, nien, nien!” (no, no, no!)
- “lugubrious exhortations”
- “you played for nearly a minute after I stopped. you don’t even look at me. how sad”
UPDATE: I’m not the first (and won’t be the last) to think of this - here are some real beauts collected by a member of the New Zealand Symphony about conductor Leif Segerstam - as reported by Alex Ross.
