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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He’d been conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, he said in a Zoom interview, when he accidentally left his baton backstage ... the musicians found themselves holding bottles of Martinelli ...

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.

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 ...

The Pacific Symphony’s 2025-26 season will be a time of transition as both Artistic and Music Director Designate Alexander Shelley and longtime conductor Carl St.Clair, who will assume the title ...

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 ...