Hosted on our beautiful campus, the annual CU Boulder Wind Band Conducting Symposium is designed for individuals conducting professionally including graduate students and those leading public school ...

Conducting film music requires an even temperament. By Jason Lipshutz, The Associated Press It all started with “Bonanza.” As a child, Mike Nowak was fascinated by the intricacies of Jay Livingston ...

I’m standing on a podium, with an enameled wand cocked between my fingers and sweat dampening the small of my back. Ranks of young musicians eye me skeptically. They know I don’t belong here, but they ...

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Baek Yoon-hak, 50, a professor at Yeungnam University’s College of Music and conductor of the Seoul Festa Philharmonic Orchestra, is widely known as “the dancing conductor.” The nickname stems from ...

Conducting is essentially a phenomenon associated with Western classical music. As a rule, rock and jazz bands do not employ a conductor unless they are teaming up with a symphony orchestra.

What does a conductor actually do? Alongside the inquiry about whether I work on a bus or a train, this is a question I dread. Yet it's completely reasonable, since conducting remains an art that is ...

“Any asino can conduct,” the autocratic Italian maestro Arturo Toscanini once said, comparing routine conductors to dunces. “But to make music, eh? Is difficile!” Now, try conducting a major orchestra ...

Architecture and classical-music critic Justin Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York. Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár. Photo: Courtesy of Focus ...

Marin Alsop’s career has been marked by a series of firsts. She was the first woman to lead a major US orchestra, the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook At top American ensembles, young assistant conductors are a far more varied group than the reigning music directors. How can the ...