Struts on in New Orleans Jazz Band style and bows so low to the audience that they nearly have splinters in their forehead.Īfter a quick 180 0 they are immediately down-beating into the test piece – band ready or not! Manic gestures throughout – bringing in imaginary parts and flailing arms and hands for dynamics that don’t exist. Waits at side of stage for the band to be seated then adds at least 30 seconds for ‘arrogantly assumed’ audience anticipation (making the band more nervous). ![]() Typically unassuming and quiet in the band room but come vividly to life on stage. Since then I have seen many conductors doing the Twerk and maybe there should be an award for this added entertainment! The Show-boater Thankfully it was also a loud part so it drowned out the girly giggles coming from the front. ![]() The test piece started to wind up with a jazzy section and then the conductor started gyrating and twerking like you have never seen. Was ‘Take That’ or ‘One Direction’ depping for the band? The band were not on their best form and it still didn’t make any sense why all these ladies had dragged themselves in. raised his baton and started off the test piece which was quite slow to start. The girls plus a lot of other ladies were crammed into the first four rows – this was getting bizarre! The band in question were languishing at the bargain basement of the championship section and I couldn’t quite understand what all the fuss was about. Curiosity got the better of me so I followed them into the hall. I remember one contest where several female banders made a huge effort to go and watch what was regarded as a ‘cuppa tea’ band. One of the main failings of a conductor is to tell their band to ‘do exactly what has been rehearsed’ in the band room – on the stage…and then not doing it themselves! Almost every conductor has an alter ego that suddenly appears in the limelight and start doing strange things on the contest stage… The Twerker Getting them all to play consistently and together and achieving that interpretation takes some doing. ![]() Hours of hard slog in the band room for weeks before a contest magically conveying their interpretation off the score into the brains of the players. It takes a lot of guts (or insanity) to take up the baton, especially on stage at a brass band contest.
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