The days of conducting time and pulse for a whole concert ended during the time of Toscanini. What Gergiev does, and what in a different way Bernstein did, was conduct in the scientific sense of the word ‘conduct’. They are channeling current! The current is the passion, in some cases the shading, in other cases the dynamics. It’s like an electric current! It’s alive. They are trying to get the orchestra to see that the music is alive and they are trying to convey that life. This is why it looks strange. They are channeling the energy that came to the composer, to the piece then from the conductor to the orchestra. When the orchestra doesn’t fight the conductor, if it is a good orchestra and they are together it works like magic!

The days of conducting time and pulse for a whole concert ended during the time of Toscanini. What Gergiev does, and what in a different way Bernstein did, was conduct in the scientific sense of the word ‘conduct’. They are channeling current! The current is the passion, in some cases the shading, in other cases the dynamics. It’s like an electric current! It’s alive. They are trying to get the orchestra to see that the music is alive and they are trying to convey that life. This is why it looks strange. They are channeling the energy that came to the composer, from the piece then from the conductor to the orchestra. When the orchestra doesn’t fight the conductor, if it is a good orchestra and it is together it works like magic!

The days of conducting time and pulse for a whole concert ended during the time of Toscanini. What Gergiev does, and what in a different way Bernstein did, was conduct in the scientific sense of the word ‘conduct’ means. They are channeling current  ! The current is the passion  , in some cases the shading  ,in other cases the dynamics. It’s like an electric current  ! It’s alive. They are trying to get the orchestra to see that the music is alive and they are trying to convey that life  . This is why it looks strange. They are channeling the energy that came TO the composer, TO the piece then FROM the conductor TO the orchestra. When the orchestra doesn’t fight the conductor, if it is a good orchestra and they are together it works like magic!!!

The days of conducting time and pulse for a whole concert ended during the time of Toscanini. What Gergiev does, and what in a different way Bernstein did, was conduct in the scientific sense of the word ‘conduct’. They are channeling current! The current is the passion, in some cases the shading, in other cases the dynamics. It’s like an electric current! It’s alive. They are trying to get the orchestra to see that the music is alive and they are trying to convey that life. This is why it looks strange. They are channeling the energy that came to the composer, to the piece then from the conductor to the orchestra. When the orchestra doesn’t fight the conductor, if it is a good orchestra and they are together it works like magic!