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Date: | Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:50:35 -0700 |
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Roger Hecht wrote:
>Memory's tricky, but I seem to remember Stokowski didn't use one.
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>Others might not have either. I only saw Szell conduct forty years ago.
>I don't know if he had one either. What about Furtwangler? Funny: it's
>not the thing I noticed, either in the audience or in the orchestra. So
>take all this under advisement.
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>Even without a baton, you can follow the real artist. You read his/her
>body language and get used to the conductor's style.
I missed the first posting, so I may repeat something here.
Karajan sometime performed sans baton, and with his eyes closed.
Furtwaengler, from the videos I've seen, looked much like a marionette,
no baton, both arms raised - looked pretty difficult to follow to me.
Mark
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