Shut up and wave your arms…
January 15, 2012 | Categories: Blog, Conducting | Tags: blogging,, Carlos Kleiber,, communication,, conducting,, rehearsing,A dear friend of mine, a German conductor who I wonʼt embarrass by naming, once went to work with a Russian orchestra. Before the first rehearsal he sidled up to the concertmaster to ask which language he should work in; he knew that some Russians speak better German than English and wanted to use the [...]