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
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