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

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  • @stevenj9970
    @stevenj9970 2 роки тому +19

    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 років тому +21

    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 років тому +12

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

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

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

  • @Rosenblum18
    @Rosenblum18 3 роки тому +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 роки тому

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

  • @2Hearts3
    @2Hearts3 2 роки тому +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. 👏🏆🎶

  • @volldillo
    @volldillo 2 роки тому +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.

  • @randomstranger3473
    @randomstranger3473 Рік тому

    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.

  • @atlassolid5946
    @atlassolid5946 4 роки тому +20

    the most dramatic intro with the least dramatic expression

  • @sophiaangelini4368
    @sophiaangelini4368 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

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

  • @santoshgujar5237
    @santoshgujar5237 2 роки тому

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

  • @prateekverma2602
    @prateekverma2602 4 роки тому +6

    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 роки тому

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

  • @adigi_music
    @adigi_music 8 років тому +10

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

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

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

  • @briankatona
    @briankatona 2 роки тому

    Wonderful and informative! Thank you for sharing!

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому +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-

  • @kuangli115
    @kuangli115 6 років тому +34

    Leonard Slatkin is famous for not using the baton.

    • @catycat28meow
      @catycat28meow 3 роки тому

      I use just the hands.

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

      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 роки тому

      It's okay with me.

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

      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 роки тому

      Comments.

  • @jonathandavis1616
    @jonathandavis1616 4 роки тому +8

    2:56 Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому

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

  • @ZayaStirling
    @ZayaStirling Рік тому

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

  • @troyrussell177
    @troyrussell177 4 роки тому +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.

  • @lj291261
    @lj291261 4 роки тому +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.

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому +3

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

  • @felixscore
    @felixscore 7 років тому +4

    Very Smart Great Conductor! (1)
    Thanks Leonard!

  • @Johnwilkinsonofficial
    @Johnwilkinsonofficial 6 років тому +3

    this is what the internet can be! 🙏

    • @juliakolasinska
      @juliakolasinska Рік тому +1

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

  • @Massigangster
    @Massigangster Рік тому

    Wow what an intro!

  • @kobekelson9837
    @kobekelson9837 7 років тому +3

    What type of baton does he have?

  • @carltrotter7622
    @carltrotter7622 4 роки тому +6

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

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому +3

    I would like to conduct and compose music

  • @lotusbuds2000
    @lotusbuds2000 6 років тому +3

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

  • @marynovacalapan9555
    @marynovacalapan9555 7 років тому +6

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

  • @catharinas.miller1965
    @catharinas.miller1965 2 роки тому

    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.😑

  • @lanebrain55
    @lanebrain55 2 роки тому

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

  • @BarbaraKrolOfficial
    @BarbaraKrolOfficial Рік тому

    I have a baton! Let’s go!

  • @frankborder
    @frankborder 6 років тому

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

  • @Donde_Lieta
    @Donde_Lieta 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

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

  • @gonzalocisternas4564
    @gonzalocisternas4564 6 років тому

    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.

  • @championvinnie9375
    @championvinnie9375 6 років тому

    Great intro with Aaron copland

  • @ralphnjackson
    @ralphnjackson 8 років тому +5

    fabulous

    • @turz60
      @turz60 8 років тому +1

      Ralph Jack

  • @HelloooThere
    @HelloooThere 2 роки тому

    What is baton for?

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому

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

  • @FoursideAssetManagement
    @FoursideAssetManagement 8 років тому +4

    great conductor

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

      @@blobodep6251 yes, fire away

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

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

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

      Ill ask my questions in the comments anyways

    • @blobodep6251
      @blobodep6251 3 роки тому

      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?

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому

    I use long thin white slender plastic drinking straws to conduct

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому +1

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

  • @Evangelionism
    @Evangelionism 7 років тому +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 років тому +4

      Gangrene

    • @amaice
      @amaice 4 роки тому +2

      GANG GREEN

  • @robbiedaug
    @robbiedaug 3 роки тому

    Thank you

  • @anvilgames2421
    @anvilgames2421 4 роки тому +3

    My left ear is gonna be a really good conductor

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому +1

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

  • @Chris-id7fn
    @Chris-id7fn 5 років тому

    Yesssssssss!!

  • @sasha42196
    @sasha42196 5 років тому

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

    • @James_Bowie
      @James_Bowie 5 років тому

      Can conduct electricity with that, too.

    • @sasha42196
      @sasha42196 4 роки тому

      @@James_Bowie No, it was plastic.

  • @paperkay
    @paperkay 6 років тому

    Awesome :D

  • @MargaretWalkerCellist
    @MargaretWalkerCellist 6 років тому +1

    Valery Gergiev uses a toothpick..

    • @sasha42196
      @sasha42196 5 років тому +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...

  • @michaeldjarmotsky1820
    @michaeldjarmotsky1820 7 років тому

    I will take mister.michael Patrick djarmotsky as my title

  • @silverpairaducks
    @silverpairaducks 5 років тому

    I just used my hands

  • @PrashiCN
    @PrashiCN 7 років тому +3

    Sir, Whats the intro music piece?

    • @LukeBerringer
      @LukeBerringer 7 років тому +2

      Prashanth Cn "Rodeo" by Copland