Music - Orchestra Conducting

CONDUCTING 

* The role of the conductor  中文

(L) a conducting lesson

 
(R) Lead like the great conductors

* What an orchestra may see of a conductor - conducting Verdi's Triumphant March in Aida opera

* An orchestra may see a dancing conductor - conducting Bernstein's Candide opera

Previously, conductors might beat time by banging a staff against the floor.

Jean-Baptiste Lully served Louis XIV, 
the French king who loved to dance/ballet.

Then, Lully struck his toe with the conducting staff, creating an abscess. The wound turned gangrenous, but Lully (intending to ballet again) refused to have his toe amputated; the gangrene spread, resulting in death.


Other conductors (usually the composers) would use bare hands.

 Mozart conducting his own
 Abduction from Seraglio opera

Starting with Mendelssohn, conductors would use a baton.
* Bernstein conducting Confutatis in Mozart's Requiem
* A 7-year-old conductor

Further, a pianist could also be a part-time conductor in a piano concerto ... conducting when not on the piano.

Beethoven  - Symphony no. 9 (aka "Choral") - “Ode to Joy”  

 - excerpts from Copying Beethoven (2006 movie) 

Totally deaf then, he conducts as his pretty student signals underground/understage.

Bernstein conducting Haydn Symphony No.88 with his face.