Hotaru Koi
Obviously I am bad at this. Please forgive my absentmindedness. WOW! I could not believe how different the group sounded when I got up in front of them. I thought I knew the piece very well, but I realized I was relying on listening only to the part I was singing. I really had to think when I was conducting.
I know that this was mainly a technical piece, but I struggled with finding ways to show different timbres. I understand how to switch between the rigid and legato sections, but how do you show differences in the quick-moving piano sections?
I am glad we did the exercise before conducting. It helped solidify that change in my mind. As usual, I wish we could have had more time. It would have been nice to try things differently or just more than a couple of times.
In the sfz sections, I feel that I did not get the results I was showing. Even though there is no video to look at, any words of wisdom? Maybe something to talk about in my UG meeting.
Another section was the rit. and crecendo section at the top of the third page. I felt that I did not get the dynamic differences I was showing. Maybe I was not showing this enough. Maybe we did not know it as well as we should have to respond in the correct way. I know that there were times I caught myself not doing what I was being showed by another conductor.