Sentence examples for conductors practice from inspiring English sources

As part of their training, prospective Metro-North Railroad conductors practice saying "Ticket, please," to each other in happy, sad and angry voices.

Although official documents and goals seem to advocate a role as conductor, in practice this is not always the case.

Engaged around the globe and at least marginally influenced by recent notions of period performance practice, conductors tend to prefer versatility: a shifting sonority appropriate in weight and coloration to the composer or work in question rather than a sound boasting local color.

Each member of the ensemble is assigned a different "instrument" and learns to follow the conductor through weekly practice.

After the 1908 premiere of this symphony in St . Petersburg it became common practice for conductors to make cuts in the piece, sometimes sizable ones.

More fascinating was his approach to the final chord, where most conductors nowadays emulate the practice that Georg Solti perfected (and later turned into caricature): blasting the brasses, then clipping them short to let their sound reverberate in the rafters.

Some contemporary conductors, however, follow a practice long established in unaccompanied choral conducting and dispense with the baton; the absence of the baton frees both hands for more elaborately interpretive directions.

In practice, some conductors might be reluctant to abide this restriction.

In a good move, the performance started without the usual conductor-enters-to-applause practice.

Mahler was one of those, but then he was a practicing conductor whose job it was to manage details.

The sound world of Bach's last great Mass has changed radically in recent decades; one-to-a-part performance practice is, as conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen puts it, "changing our entire notion of Bach's acoustic universe".