If you go to an orchestra concert, it’s pretty easy to figure out what most of the people onstage are contributing to the overall experience. The violinists and cellists move their bows back and forth ...

Conducting combines two essential elements: the art of communication and the art of leadership. There are three aspects: baton technique, body language and talking. It doesn't matter if you're lef ...

Solti’s podium technique ... conductor to Arturo Toscanini at the Salzburg Festival. He still recalls one concert when he was waiting to play the glockenspiel under the Maestro’s baton.

The conductor’s baton is the original magic wand. Give it to a broken-down piano player and presto!—up pops a shaggy-haired genius, a leader of men, God’s gift to music. Bah! says Gregor ...

BEYOND THE BATON: A CONDUCTOR'S JOURNEY is an hour-long film that documents Wilkins’ experience as a Black conductor and his larger impact on the musical world. Born to a single mother on ...

AMBLER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Baton-making is Mark Horowitz's blood. From his basement in Montgomery County, he's molded delicate sticks for famous conductors for decades. Then Hollywood came ...

Do their conducting techniques differ? “The schooling or the philosophy, if you will, of what conducting is, it’s very much the same. But how it looks to others, and how it manifests ...