What A Joy Is Learning 3
(Conducting)
I’ve read a book, been instructed on how to conduct correctly and it was just as boring, dreary, as cold as beating time with the hands going up, down, left, right and you could do it with your eyes shut.
I have observed many really good conductors conducting. Each one doing it in a very different way. I don’t, couldn’t see them conducting like what I’ve read, learned, been instructed before.
I learned by observing Mr. Soplanit, a choir conductor who even wasn’t a conductor who had his church choir sing, so moved me while he almost didn’t conducted with his hands.
I learned to start without counting first but immediately as we draw our breath to start singing as was taught by Dr. Kelly during his public lecture on singing. I ‘m very grateful as I now can start anywhere during our singing without having to beat time.
I never saw a really good soloist, pianist, violinist, conductor with a panface without expression, sitting or standing rigidly erect, except he/she is still a student or a poor artist.
Should I conduct the way it should according to the rules it would deaden my feeling for music, kill beautiful music. It’s the music prompted me involuntarily. My hands, feet, moving, dancing, inviting, my eyes conjuring my choir. What a joy is conducting without having - a baton - to beat time, to observe the rules.
August 2010
(Conducting)
I’ve read a book, been instructed on how to conduct correctly and it was just as boring, dreary, as cold as beating time with the hands going up, down, left, right and you could do it with your eyes shut.
I have observed many really good conductors conducting. Each one doing it in a very different way. I don’t, couldn’t see them conducting like what I’ve read, learned, been instructed before.
I learned by observing Mr. Soplanit, a choir conductor who even wasn’t a conductor who had his church choir sing, so moved me while he almost didn’t conducted with his hands.
I learned to start without counting first but immediately as we draw our breath to start singing as was taught by Dr. Kelly during his public lecture on singing. I ‘m very grateful as I now can start anywhere during our singing without having to beat time.
I never saw a really good soloist, pianist, violinist, conductor with a panface without expression, sitting or standing rigidly erect, except he/she is still a student or a poor artist.
Should I conduct the way it should according to the rules it would deaden my feeling for music, kill beautiful music. It’s the music prompted me involuntarily. My hands, feet, moving, dancing, inviting, my eyes conjuring my choir. What a joy is conducting without having - a baton - to beat time, to observe the rules.
August 2010
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