Don’t talk during rehearsals

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1. Allen H Simon says

   October 11, 2010 at 5:54 pm

   I regret that so many people got distracted by the video, which I added only for fun. The point was to call attention to Chris Rowbury’s blog post, linked below the video.

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2. Molly Mattingly says

   October 10, 2010 at 7:21 pm

   This was most certainly staged as an April Fool’s joke – here’s the fuller version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-HNsd_mcuY&feature=fvw. The student was in on it, and it wasn’t his (probably much more expensive) violin.

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3. Alice Hughes says

   October 10, 2010 at 10:07 am

   This was a apparently an April Fool’s Day joke. See original link below:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-HNsd_mcuY&feature=fvw

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4. Gerald Peel says

   October 10, 2010 at 8:54 am

   Saw this several months ago.  This guy is a loser!  How will he replace one of his first stand players?  Did he know that the concert master was probably discussing a musical passage or a bowing with a subordinate player?  Foolishness, and probably staged anyway.  The old school method of discipline (along with the canings that were part of our educational system) are past and gone.  Good riddance!!

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5. Alan Gumm says

   October 10, 2010 at 5:16 am

   Check out “The Speechless Rehearsal” article in February 2010 Choral Journal for techniques to reduce or at times eliminate talk altogether. Reasons of talking can be identified and turned around. –Alan Gumm, author

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6. Mark Jon Gottschalk says

   October 10, 2010 at 4:52 am

   Sorry, even if staged, not funny.

    

   If a professional orchestra, even at basic levels, he would be dismissed on the spot.

    

   If a community or university level, no matter how small, she SHOULD be fired on the spot.

    

   The day of dictator-conductor is over.  And I have studied under some of the legendary ones in orchestral and choral worlds.

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