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From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne Perry)
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Subject: Re: Re: Out-of-place Codas
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 09:51:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 09:51:23 1985
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Greg, I am interested in the information your friends provided about
the preparation for the Dutoit performance.  It seems to me that the
actual performance could provide misleading information about the
contribution of the conductor:  all of the work could easily have
been in the rehearsal and the performance one where he sits back and
lets it happen.  I have sung under several conductors where that is 
precisely the case; I have also sat under conductors where all the
work was done by someone else in the rehearsals and the conductor just
followed along in the performance.

A case in point, John Finlay Williamson conducted in such a way that
it looked like he was doing nothing at all except just standing there.
His movements were minute, but the choir was absolutely on their toes
because of the intense work in rehearsals and the aclimitization to his
conducting style.

Lead on - Dewayne