Stick Time: Conducting Study 3

Today let’s look at a preparatory gesture and and an ictus.  In this short example, there is absolutely no doubt HOW colleague wants the entrance to occur; nor can there be the slightest ambiguity about WHERE the attack is supposed to occur.  Appropriately, the sound of the choir is every bit as assertive and muscular as is the gesture.  Do your gestures reflect the intended musical product so precisely?