Glenn Gould was planning a career as a conductor studio only, of course. Gould was left-handed, even conducting. He was also left-footed. I had the pleasure of being a passenger in his car when I noticed he was using his left foot on the accelerator.
From the very short example here, it seems like it would only take a few minutes to get used to it. Martyn Brabbins convinced me to switch back in Very kind of you, Norman. When Paavo Berglund was guest-conducting our orchestra, it was actually rather confusing at times. When meter of a piece keeps changing from 3 beats to 4 and back, one looks for the direction of the second beat to feel comfortable where we are in the music, but his second beat when in 3 looked the way it usually looks when in 4 — and vice versa obviously.
This was quite unsettling and not so easy to get used to. When a guest conductor comes to a busy orchestra and has three or at best four rehearsals to prepare a full program, there is virtually no extra time available to spend on getting used to disturbingly confusing beating patterns that are diametrically opposite of those one has been seeing and living with for many years.
All fantastic left-hand conductors! I do NOT force my students to conduct with the right hand — as a left-handed conductor myself, I found that I never could achieve the same precision with the right hand. I do believe there are different kinds of left-handed people, and some might be more ambidextrous than others. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. This is just one way. The bottom line is that there is so much more to the left hand than the few things that are normally taught.
If you start from the perspective that your gestures should reflect the music , and not the patterns behind it, then a new world of opportunities opens up giving you a chance to justify your presence on the podium as a conductor and not a simple metronome.
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Griglio took part in the first world recording of music by composer Irwin Bazelon and conducted several world premieres like "The song of Eddie", by Harold Farberman, a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize. Griglio is also active as a composer. His first opera, Camille Claudel, debuted in to a great success of audience and critics.
When can the left hand be used with an actual purpose? Here are a few examples: 1 — to cue a section or an instrument 2 — to highlight a solo section 3 — to make a crescendo or a diminuendo 4 — to enhance a change of color. Cues The left hand is a very powerful tool.
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