How A Composer Conducts Himself
Clip: Season 36 Episode 3 | 3m 32s
What can a composer do to make sure his musical vision is heard? Conduct!
Don't all composers want to impose their will, not only on innocent blank pages, but also on the musicians who play their music? Alec Baldwin discovers that Richard Strauss even had a set of written rules for conducting!
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Live From Lincoln Center is made possible with support from the Family of Robert Wood Johnson III, the Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation, The Robert and Renée Belfer Family Foundation, Mercedes T. Bass, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
How A Composer Conducts Himself
Clip: Season 36 Episode 3 | 3m 32s
Don't all composers want to impose their will, not only on innocent blank pages, but also on the musicians who play their music? Alec Baldwin discovers that Richard Strauss even had a set of written rules for conducting!
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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