great conductor comments

I’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.