Ponticello
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(10/6/00 5:24:02 am)
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I have only just recently joined an
orchestra as a cellist and wondered this myself. I had always got
the impression that people in the section "follow" their
principal's, but at least for me it is really hard to do that. She
sits 4 stands ahead of me, and I can't pay too much attention to her
AND the conductor AND the music. I thought the principal was
supposed to talk to the section about bowings and things, but that
never happens in my orchestra. I think it depends on the orchestra.
I'm in one at a non-music oriented university, things are probably
different in a professional one.
One interesting thing our
cond. did though. We're playing the Tchaik piano concerto. and the
main melody the strings play in the beginng he told us to play it,
but WITHOUT the first stands of each section to see how it sounded!
It' was Amazing, it sounded such much more hesitant and less "full"
then it usually does, which proves we probably do rely on our
principal players
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