tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post5086435652890468292..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Peter Paul Fuchs - a compelling voiceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-5784335045057872572007-04-03T22:20:00.000+01:002007-04-03T22:20:00.000+01:00Thanks, John, for locating the fascinating long ex...Thanks, John, for locating the fascinating long excerpt from Peter Paul Fuchs's 'The Psychology of Conducting'!<BR/><BR/>Here are three shorter excerpts from Fuchs's 'The Psychology of Conducting'(from a fairly recent University of Maryland academic dissertation).<BR/><BR/>And also an interesting 1969 advertising blurb for the Peter Paul Fuch's The Psychology of Conducting, as published as an end-piece in the Oxford Journal of Music.<BR/><BR/>“How significant this spark should be will largely depend on the<BR/>conductor’s personality. One conductor will give everything he has to give<BR/>during the rehearsal. He will prepare his concert down to the smallest<BR/>expressive detail, including the fullest extent of all the emotional peaks, so<BR/>that the concert will essentially be an exact repetition of the dress<BR/>rehearsal. Another will rehearse the orchestra most meticulously, but will<BR/>quite purposely limit the giving of emotional resources, in order to have an<BR/>element of surprise left in the performance.”<BR/><BR/>“The conductor should focus on the orchestra and not the audience. Now<BR/>the conductor’s task is to keep things technically well under control, to<BR/>indicate the correct tempi and tempo changes, to maintain the proper<BR/>balance by making adjustment where they are needed, to give the<BR/>necessary cues, and most of all, to furnish the inspiration through gestures<BR/>and expressions that will draw the best efforts from the musicians”.<BR/><BR/>‘The conductor needs to know when he should let the performers have a sense<BR/>of security from him, but sometimes he needs to figure out the psychological problem<BR/>of the performers, then solve it. For example, at the beginning of the Magnificat, the<BR/>conductor needs to give a very clear preparation in order to lead the singers’<BR/>breathing. If the gesture of preparation is not clear enough, each singer will interpret<BR/>it differently and then breathe at a different moment.’<BR/><BR/>*<BR/><BR/>THE PSYCHOLOGY<BR/>OF CONDUCTING<BR/>by Peter Paul Fuchs<BR/>Explores the relationship between<BR/>the conductor and all<BR/>facets of his profession (instrumentalists,<BR/>soloists, audience,<BR/>etc.). Features interviews and<BR/>special viewpoints of 10 top<BR/>conductors, including Leonard<BR/>Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy,<BR/>Erich Leinsdorf, William Steinberg<BR/>and Max Rudolf.<BR/>Not only for the conductor and<BR/>the music student but for all<BR/>musicians, as well as the layman.<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/backmatter_pdf/LV/4.pdf<BR/>[near end.]Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-59339798955859539782007-04-03T21:31:00.000+01:002007-04-03T21:31:00.000+01:00JMW writes:Here's a link to an excerpt, horn orien...<I>JMW writes:</I><BR/><BR/>Here's a link to an excerpt, horn oriented, from Fuch's book - <A HREF="http://www.hornplayer.net/archive/a289.html" REL="nofollow">http://www.hornplayer.net/archive/a289.html</A>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-53784994537600950792007-04-03T20:58:00.000+01:002007-04-03T20:58:00.000+01:00As well as exploring Peter Paul Fuchs's largely un...As well as exploring Peter Paul Fuchs's largely unknown music, I'd also be curious to read his The Psychology of Conducting, from 1969; as well as his much more widely available edited volume, <BR/>The Music Theatre of Walter Felsenstein. (The former lists at Amazon at $100; the latter at $5. I will hope that the Library of Congress has a copy.)<BR/><BR/>Perhaps John owns the Fuchs Psychology of Conducting volume and can revisit it, and share here a few choice passages.<BR/><BR/>Thank you.Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com