The famous Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky reveals the secrets, great and small, of conducting.
"Being a conductor, has nothing to do with the arm movements, it's a question of influence." That is how Gennady Rozhdestvensky defines this very special art of orchestra conducting, backing up this claim with the words of Franz Strauss, who played the horn in his son Richard's orchestra: "When a conductor we don't know enters the orchestra pit, we can see by the way he walks whether or not he is capable." But when we see Rozhdestvensky work with the students from the Moscow Conservatory, we realise that it's a little more complicated than that…
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