Via Alex Ross. I was taken here. Conductors say the darndest things! Now some of this is, of course, related to language issues. But I have it on good authority (mine) that most conductors can say things that make us little folk smile. And even guffaw, although we try to hold back. I’m sorry I haven’t kept a journal of things I’ve heard. Some things they say—some metaphors they toss out—are just perfect, too; they can say something I would never think of to get us to produce a certain kind of sound. Really.
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“Native folkloric haemiolas that you should have in your Mahler bloods.”
Yeah, that’s amazing.
There’s a conductor here who says some outrageous things. Such as:
“I don’t want to hear you; I just want to feel you.” (yes, really)
“You’re crescendoing too soon. Please don’t shoot your wad.”
“Oh, yes, give it to me.”
And, in the Theme/Variations mvt of Prokofiev’s 2nd piano concerto, which uses rehearsal numbers instead of letters:
“Let’s start with my favorite variation–” (Yes, you can guess what number.)
The best part? He has no clue that what he’s saying has any off-color meaning. Very entertaining.
Oh wow … those are pretty unbelievable. Do the musicians manage to keep straight faces, or is that impossible?