What Do Conductors Do? | Answering Your Questions | Part 5

youtube ^ | Alma Deutscher

[ganeemead]

British teen with surreal talent...

[Telepathic Intruder]

Ted Bundy was a pretty good conductor, I heard.

[Repeal The 17th]

Railroad or orchestra?

[_longranger81]

I heard he put up a little resistance.

[mkmensinger]

[Organic Panic]

I am ways suspicious when I read of “amazing teen” or “amazing youth.”

How many times has the media propped up an “amazing teen” who in enter a free energy device or solved unsolvable math problems (trisecting an angle pops up every couple years.).

[Still Thinking]

Heat-, electricity-, or train-?

[libh8er]

Lately I am seeing more and more women being pushed to a conductor’s role. That and commercial pilots. And YouTube is pushing these videos into people’s feeds. If I were a musician I would refuse to perform under a female conductor.

[frank ballenger]

What do conductors do?

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Pressure attractive young female musicians into having sex with them or getting negative professional references and untrue gossip about getting cut from the orchestra.

[libh8er]

Many years ago I went to a performance by the Houston Symphony and the conductor turned out to be…..a butch lesbian named Marin Alsop. Had never heard of her until then. A butch lesbian in a pantsuit conducting Beethoven. Ugghh.

[rfp1234]

Just be happy we didn’t get one as POTUS in 2016.

[ryderann]

“A butch lesbian in a pantsuit conducting Beethoven.”

Might have been more appropriate had it been Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries!

[Jonty30]

This is what she was doing when she was 12 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz5dRfc49SI

[Deaf Smith]

Those meth heads trying to steal copper grounding cables at electrical substations make good conductors.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Touché

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

In this particular case, Alma Deutscher and her parents "do" promote the heck out of her. Been doing it for years. She's talented, but time tells all things. Promotion.

Hans Keller had observed that there were two redundant kinds of musicians, violists and conductors. (And some others around that subject). Here's a bit of his view, and some criticism of criticism:

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-17997,00.html

And here's a bit of her marketing:

https://www.almadeutscher.com/store

[Albion Wilde]

Lately I am seeing more and more women being pushed to a conductor’s role. That and commercial pilots. And YouTube is pushing these videos into people’s feeds. If I were a musician I would refuse to perform under a female conductor.

I fully understand your reservations about pilots; but what could be your objection to a females conductor of music?

[Albion Wilde]

This is what she was doing when she was 12 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz5dRfc49SI

Wow, what a prodigy!

[StAnDeliver]

She is a violin prodigy, and should stick to being a violin prodigy.

[ganeemead]

I’d guess that your musical education ended with “You aint nothin but a hound dog”.....