like I'm holding a chair leg." The weight of a baton is what appeals to Joana Carneiro, Berkeley Symphony's music director. She has a tendency to raise her arm while conducting, she says.

BEYOND THE BATON: A CONDUCTOR'S JOURNEY is an ... That's their job, is to take it. So if conductors are constantly holding on and just literally not able to just let go of the horse, so to speak ...

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 ...

It’s the final season for the conductor, who’s been around for all but six of them. Joe Pelligrini remembers taking the baton in 1990 and giving his first signal for the band to start playing.

The scientists in this study theorized that if the movements of the conductor predicted the movements of the violinists, then the guy holding the baton was clearly in charge. From our morning news ...

With a new musical director/conductor holding the baton, the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra is hoping to have a bigger presence in the community than ever before. "To me, it's all about engagement ...

A host of men and women have held the baton for the world’s leading ensembles ... the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Austrian conductor, Herbert von Karajan was a prolific conductor, ...

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 ...

He began conducting the orchestra in 1980 and generations ... including a golden cast of his hand holding a baton. Some of the young performers also said they would be working extra hard and ...

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has chosen its new head coach. That's how Executive Director Eric Marshall described Adam Johnson, the symphony's new music director and conductor, in a press ...

On Oct. 27, GBH 2 will broadcast the PBS documentary "Behind the Baton: A Conductor's Journey." It tells the extraordinary life story of the legendary Thomas Wilkins and his journey through the ...