From http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...033#post631033
When you watch a television broadcast of a Prom - or any other concert - what is it you hope to get from seeing the pictures as well as hearing the sound?
What do you want? A concert performance or a photograph? This, and many other posts on this thread are way off the subject.
Having watched and enjoyed most of this tv broadcast (missed most of the Mozart... and the dress ) I have been mulling starting a thread about the tv broadcasts of Proms (and perhaps others). It seems to me that there are interesting ideas and views about their function for us individually.
For now I'll restrict myself to saying that I always want to see as much of the conductor as possible: for example, Haitink's stick technique interested me. Since directors like to zero in on soloists and sections as they 'take centre stage' musically, it is inevitable that our attention is drawn to gesture, dress, face and so on.
For now I'll restrict myself to saying that I always want to see as much of the conductor as possible: for example, Haitink's stick technique interested me. Since directors like to zero in on soloists and sections as they 'take centre stage' musically, it is inevitable that our attention is drawn to gesture, dress, face and so on.
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