Lesson One: The Baton, Leonard Slatkin's Conducting School

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

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  • @stevenj9970
    @stevenj9970 2 года назад +18

    Slatkin is one of our greatest conductors ever produced in this country. I played under him for many years when he guest conducted the Grant Park Symphony. The most complicated and complex works he know how to take them apart by having different orchestra sections reh. them together and after ,when we all joined together, - it was like a tight finished puzzle.....Ive never played with a conductor who could accomplish that task any faster then he.

  • @margueritewalkerii7304
    @margueritewalkerii7304 7 лет назад +20

    I know that you have been doing this for a while, but I wanted to let you know that I just discovered it this evening while listening online to the 9th (I had a ticket but fell ill and could not attend), and am very excited to have made this discovery. Thank you so much for this education.

  • @Lqviolin2
    @Lqviolin2 8 лет назад +12

    Bravo Maestro! You are a master at reaching out to the community.

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Hello, are you a conductor? If yes, I want to ask you a few questions about it if that's okay with you.

  • @randomstranger3473
    @randomstranger3473 Год назад

    My Idea of Living the Good life is, to be able to pass down Knowledge that you have acquired and share it to the world, I am being lectured by Greatness himself. I hope to be one of the greatest Conductor of my DLC group.

  • @2Hearts3
    @2Hearts3 2 года назад +2

    Thank you very much, Maestro. I greatly admire your work. First heard you decades ago in The Complete Gershwin you recorded with the St Louis Symphony. To this day, it remains in my ear and heart the definitive interpretation of Gershwin. 👏🏆🎶

  • @Rosenblum18
    @Rosenblum18 3 года назад +10

    This is my newest hobby during COVID isolation. I stand in front of my super stereo system and lead my virtual orchestra! ( I'm not very good yet at coordinating the hand movements - sorta looks like I'm swatting flies).

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Hello, are you a conductor? If yes, I want to ask you a few questions about it if that's okay with you.

  • @prateekverma2602
    @prateekverma2602 4 года назад +5

    Sir it's my very first day towards the amazing world of being a music conductor......and this is the first lesson I took,I accept u as my master🙏❤

    • @WoFfan13
      @WoFfan13 4 года назад

      I wish you the very best of luck! Conducting is hard, but EXTREMELY fun!

  • @santoshgujar5237
    @santoshgujar5237 2 года назад

    I was always curious what they are doing, But i just Love Music, Thank you, Sir, 🙏🌺😇

  • @sophiaangelini4368
    @sophiaangelini4368 4 года назад +3

    I am totally mystified. Just starting and great need. Merci

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Hello, are you a conductor? If yes, I want to ask you a few questions about it if that's okay with you.

  • @atlassolid5946
    @atlassolid5946 4 года назад +20

    the most dramatic intro with the least dramatic expression

  • @volldillo
    @volldillo 2 года назад +16

    I do not agree with the claim, that the baton is only the focus leading to the hand. I played opera in the orchestra pit very often (professional level), and for precision, I always watched the tip of the baton, not the hand. The hand is optically way too diffuse for giving precise metric information to wind players or percussion. Maybe, beginners watch the hand and not the baton, but this doesn't say anything about what professional musicians are used to do.

  • @briankatona
    @briankatona 2 года назад

    Wonderful and informative! Thank you for sharing!

  • @adigi_music
    @adigi_music 8 лет назад +10

    I love it! You make it funny and interesting! Great Job, Maestro and thank you so much!

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Hello, are you a conductor? If yes, I want to ask you a few questions about it if that's okay with you.

  • @kuangli115
    @kuangli115 6 лет назад +34

    Leonard Slatkin is famous for not using the baton.

    • @catycat28meow
      @catycat28meow 3 года назад

      I use just the hands.

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Hello, are you a conductor? If yes, I want to ask you a few questions about it if that's okay with you.

    • @catycat28meow
      @catycat28meow 3 года назад

      It's okay with me.

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Thx so much. Can we talk over discord or somth similar because communicating by commenting is a bit difficult. What do you prefer?

    • @catycat28meow
      @catycat28meow 3 года назад

      Comments.

  • @ZayaStirling
    @ZayaStirling Год назад

    I'm making my own baton right now, taken a few tries to get the stem right.

  • @jonathandavis1616
    @jonathandavis1616 4 года назад +8

    2:56 Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

  • @Johnwilkinsonofficial
    @Johnwilkinsonofficial 6 лет назад +3

    this is what the internet can be! 🙏

    • @juliakolasinska
      @juliakolasinska Год назад +1

      Yess ❤ true! :) the same thought. Writing title and you have knowledge

  • @troyrussell177
    @troyrussell177 4 года назад +2

    If i carve a baton, could it theoretically be used by a conductor at some point? I'm thinking maybe they have to be carved from walnut, in this specific way or its just a wand and not a conductors baton.

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад

    This video is a true god send because I want lern how to conduct a symphony orchestra

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад +1

    A million thanks and I just can't thank enough for as long as I can remember I have always wanted to become a musical composer and conductor and musical supervisor and if I ever do make it as a musical composer and conductor and musical supervisor my title will be mister djarmotsky-

  • @felixscore
    @felixscore 7 лет назад +4

    Very Smart Great Conductor! (1)
    Thanks Leonard!

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад +3

    If I ever ever make it as a musical composer and conductor and musical supervisor my title will be mr.djarmotsky

  • @marynovacalapan9555
    @marynovacalapan9555 7 лет назад +6

    great!!!
    may I know the Tittle of the background music ??
    Thank you .

  • @Massigangster
    @Massigangster 11 месяцев назад

    Wow what an intro!

  • @lanebrain55
    @lanebrain55 Год назад

    Where can I get the style of baton like you use?

  • @kobekelson9837
    @kobekelson9837 7 лет назад +3

    What type of baton does he have?

  • @lj291261
    @lj291261 4 года назад +4

    You can get someone from the street and let that person conduct an orchestra like the Berliner and they will play the same way as conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. It is all in the rehearsal not in the performance.

  • @BarbaraKrolOfficial
    @BarbaraKrolOfficial Год назад

    I have a baton! Let’s go!

  • @carltrotter7622
    @carltrotter7622 4 года назад +6

    5:44 of a man talking about a fancy twig.
    I love civilisation.

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад +3

    I would like to conduct and compose music

  • @catharinas.miller1965
    @catharinas.miller1965 2 года назад

    I used to dream of being a conductor. I didn't reach good points in my Brazilian SATs for conducting at university but it was high enough for international business...that's what I did.😑

  • @ralphnjackson
    @ralphnjackson 8 лет назад +5

    fabulous

    • @turz60
      @turz60 8 лет назад +1

      Ralph Jack

  • @frankborder
    @frankborder 6 лет назад

    Why is Dick Van Patten doing a conducting video and where did Leonard Slatkin go

  • @HelloooThere
    @HelloooThere 2 года назад

    What is baton for?

  • @lotusbuds2000
    @lotusbuds2000 5 лет назад +3

    a musical giant...but he looks so cute with his potish belly as he walks in...

  • @Donde_Lieta
    @Donde_Lieta 4 года назад +1

    I should get the ol’ Jean Baptist Lully styled conducting staff

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Hello, are you a conductor? If yes, I want to ask you a few questions about it if that's okay with you.

  • @championvinnie9375
    @championvinnie9375 6 лет назад

    Great intro with Aaron copland

  • @robbiedaug
    @robbiedaug 3 года назад

    Thank you

  • @Evangelionism
    @Evangelionism 7 лет назад +19

    The audience: "He pounded [the staff] so hard that he ran through his foot..."
    The choir: "...caught gang green..."
    The audience and choir in unison: "...and DIED."
    The detectives' rule: **Writes: "Occupational hazard."**

    • @ljc6141
      @ljc6141 5 лет назад +4

      Gangrene

    • @amaice
      @amaice 4 года назад +2

      GANG GREEN

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад

    I practice conducting using long thin white slender plastic drinking straws to conduct

  • @gonzalocisternas4564
    @gonzalocisternas4564 6 лет назад

    I feel so weird watching this, because i am a film composer and people just assume that i know how to do this (even musicians), but this is really a difficult - and specific - discipline.

  • @FoursideAssetManagement
    @FoursideAssetManagement 8 лет назад +4

    great conductor

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад +1

      Hello, are you a conductor? If yes, I want to ask you a few questions about it if that's okay with you.

    • @FoursideAssetManagement
      @FoursideAssetManagement 3 года назад +1

      @@blobodep6251 yes, fire away

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Can we talk using discord or anything you like because talking by commenting is a bit difficult. What do you prefer?

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      Ill ask my questions in the comments anyways

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 года назад

      1: Are there many conductors in the world? Is their number over 100000? I dont see many probably because my school didn't offer music classes. But my friends and family members who took music classes learned about the piano and violin, so I was wondering how low the number of conductors in the world are.
      2: What is the most difficult thing about being a conductor? Is it finding a job or practicing? Or maybe it's some other thing I didn't think about.
      3: How do conductors practice? Do they practice by conducting an orchestra only? Is there no other way to practice?
      4: Is the number of people aspiring to be conductors decreasing?

  • @anvilgames2421
    @anvilgames2421 4 года назад +3

    My left ear is gonna be a really good conductor

  • @Chris-id7fn
    @Chris-id7fn 5 лет назад

    Yesssssssss!!

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад

    I use long thin white slender plastic drinking straws to conduct

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад +1

    I am planning to be mr.djarmotasky musical composer and conductor and musical supervisor

  • @paperkay
    @paperkay 6 лет назад

    Awesome :D

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад +1

    My family doctors title is dr.ng and my title will be mr.djarmotsky the new musical composer and conductor and musical supervisor

  • @sasha42196
    @sasha42196 5 лет назад

    A friend of mine used a coat hanger to make his first baton...

    • @James_Bowie
      @James_Bowie 5 лет назад

      Can conduct electricity with that, too.

    • @sasha42196
      @sasha42196 4 года назад

      @@James_Bowie No, it was plastic.

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 лет назад

    I will take mister.michael Patrick djarmotsky as my title

  • @MargaretWalkerCellist
    @MargaretWalkerCellist 6 лет назад +1

    Valery Gergiev uses a toothpick..

    • @sasha42196
      @sasha42196 5 лет назад +1

      Yes, he saves one from lunch...on occasion, food particles that were previously between the Maestro's teeth dislodge from the toothpick and fly into the orchestra...

  • @silverpairaducks
    @silverpairaducks 5 лет назад

    I just used my hands

  • @PrashiCN
    @PrashiCN 7 лет назад +3

    Sir, Whats the intro music piece?