At 2/1/2006 12:25 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: >I don't accept that the success of Petrucci's innovation is proof that >these books were being bought primarily to use for performances. It's >too big an assumption. I like to draw a parallel with minature scores >of symphonic repertoire - sure, they sell well, but hardly anybody >either plays or conducts from them.
Well, in conducting class (at UConn), we had to purchase a couple of reduced scores, and then had to conduct from them to a record playing of the piece in question. Obviously, as a practice, on our own time.
In retrospect, as a fairly successful conductor of community groups, I wonder if it really helped.
I guest conducted the UConn band at my high school for one number when they came for a school assembly.
I got many comments, from the UConn band students, that I looked exactly like their director, who, of course, had taught me in the conducting class ;-)
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