The Pacific Symphony’s 2025-26 season will be a time of transition as both Artistic and Music Director Designate Alexander Shelley and longtime conductor Carl St.Clair, who will assume the title ...

One can only hope that these talented conductors find the right homes, allowing them to devote themselves entirely to their music and to the orchestras that have entrusted them with their baton.

The conductor’s baton is the original magic wand. Give it to a broken-down piano player and presto!—up pops a shaggy-haired genius, a leader of men, God’s gift to music. Bah! says Gregor ...

The Brown University senior and head conductor of the Brown Band embraces a wide range of musical, academic and volunteer ...

Lidiya Yankovskaya leads the Fort Worth Symphony in 2022. Yankovskaya, whose conducting career began as a Guilderland High ...

He’d been conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, he said in a Zoom interview, when he accidentally left his baton backstage. Rather than sending someone to fetch it, he decided to go without.

Beyond the Baton: A Conductor's Journey is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

To convey their ideas and interpretation, a conductor communicates with their musicians primarily through hand gestures, typically though not invariably with the aid of a baton, and may use other ...