The Conductor


The Orchestral Conductor is not strictly a Narrator, merely an assistant in the delivery of musical performances. However from the drawings beneath it is clear that the sustained performance has certain narrative levels - not least in the transition from anticipation to ecstatic culmination of achievement.
 
TOP LEFT Otto Kohler's silhouette portraits of Eduard Strauss conducting while playing the Violin.
from Karl Stork (see beneath)
 
 
TOP RIGHT Hans von Bulow conducts from FIGARO 1884 Storck p.87 see beneath
 
 
 
BENEATH Styles of Modern Conducting from Lustigen Blatter 1906
 
These three illustrations are from Karl Storck, Musik und Musiker in Karikatur und Satire,
c1910

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM , 1941

SIR HENRY WOOD, 1941