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A VR rhythm action game with a difference, Maestro has you conducting orchestras and bands in a variety of locations and with ...
Dayton Philharmonic Artistic Director and Conductor Neal Gittleman has retired after 30 years of service. Listen to his ...
Recently, a tech entrepreneur paid 400,000 dollars to conduct the Toronto Orchestra for one evening, to criticism from some ...
BEYOND THE BATON: A CONDUCTOR'S JOURNEY is an hour-long film that documents Wilkins’ experience as a Black ... 'cause you got a whole row of conductors over there on the right hand side. - Yes ...
The conductor's baton is the original magic wand. Give it to a broken-down piano player and presto!—up pops a shaggy-haired genius, a leader of men, God's gift to music. Bah! says ...
Most conductors make an elaborate show of signaling to the different players, ... But the players hustled him into one, thrust a baton into his hand and boosted him on the conductor’s stand.
AMBLER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Baton-making is Mark Horowitz's blood. From his basement in Montgomery County, he's molded delicate sticks for famous conductors for decades. Then Hollywood came ...
Mark Horowitz and his family are known for making conductor batons. In fact his dad, ... It takes two hours to do, then another couple hours to be painted by hand and dry. One baton costs about $100.
Maestro offers a great pseudo-simulation of conducting through a gesture-based rhythm game and on- and off-screen antics. You conduct a variety of orchestral and jazz tracks through hand tracking ...
A flourish of the baton from this conductor was meant to cue an oboe – but something far more dramatic happened, resulting in a ‘heart attack’ moment for a soloist on stage. Star Czech violinist Pavel ...