Chuck

I mean, that's our current understanding.

I'm going to call this from a conductor.

We heard from quite a few conductors so far, and that's just on day one after release, so it's...

pretty great to know that there are people out there that know about this stuff better than we do that's amazing hey guys thank you so much for the episode about conductors i squealed with joy when i saw it in my feed as i started my hour-long commute i teach high school orchestra and i'm an orchestral orchestral excuse me musician with uh former aspirations of becoming a professional conductor so it's fun to hear an outsider's perspective

You're wondering what exactly is on each musician's stand during a performance.

I love Chuck's analogy of it being like an actor's script with only their lines, and that's pretty close.

But sometimes there are small annotations of what to listen for from other sections of the orchestra, particularly after a long section of inactive playing or rests.

to help figure out where you are in the music.

That's the part, remember, I just couldn't believe there'd be like nothing to cue you.

And I saw other stuff where there were sometimes numeric notations and other conductors said there were

long bars and things that you would pay attention to.

Back to the email though.

This is another key job of the conductor, which you didn't touch on as much, is they have the entire score.

They often give entrance cues to specific instrumentalists or sections.

Additionally, there are usually rehearsal markers that delineate the beginnings of phrases or larger sections.

This not only makes rehearsing easier, but also gives greater structure and scaffolding to the player.

It's similar to punctuation or paragraph structure in a novel.

Experienced musicians can often almost more or less feel their entrances based on their contextual knowledge of the piece and the music phrasing.

There's an old adage that you spend your time practicing at home to learn your part.

Rehearsal time is spent learning everyone else's.