This conservative blogger mansplaining how to conduct an orchestra was magnificently owned into next week and it hits all the right notes

John Plunkett. Updated November 25th, 2024

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She’s absolutely in time and very clear

the conductor is always a little bit ahead of the orchestra – we’re following her, after all. I can even tell you what beat she’s on most of the time – better than Karajan’s butter churning

— orchestral clarinetist

— go Laura() (@LauraFlowD) November 24, 2024

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Ian, shockingly, is unfamiliar with the concept of anticipatory conducting as well as a conductor being an artist and being a part of the performance. Who would have thought? https://t.co/HSh3ry44Ox

— Chris Cassingham (@CCassingham) November 25, 2024

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One of the funnier right-wing herd fixations we’ve seen yet. I don’t think a single person believes Ian Miles Cheong knows or cares about any of this. https://t.co/GyqYFDKToS

— Sturgeon’s Law (@Sturgeons_Law) November 24, 2024

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No, she is not. I studied conducting. She has the whole sheets for every instrument section and should show all of them dynamic, auf takt etc. conducting is not easy. This woman feels music with every single inch of her body

— Anastasiia Gonser (@AnastasiiaGons1) November 24, 2024

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Saying the conductor is “out of time” is such a pristine, beautifully stupid take that it should be framed https://t.co/kOiODKqdIO

— Asparagus_Brown (@Asparagus_Brown) November 25, 2024

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Her entire job is to control the tempo and provide visual queues for timing. If anyone was “out of time”, it would have been the ENTIRE BAND. This is also some of the more muted conducting I’ve ever seen, and not new in the slightest you complete and utter fucking moron https://t.co/DOedFZZAFK

— Shea (@SheaZerda) November 24, 2024

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I love her! They are all feeling the tempo together with vigor and contagious energy. Her passion flows through the musicians and makes it much more fun to watch!

— SavetheRepublic ❤️ (@sliffematters) November 23, 2024

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classically trained musician here to say it’s a lot more fun to play with a conductor like this https://t.co/hTqd2XMvu5

— american pokeweed (@GreenIsWorn) November 25, 2024

To conclude …

It’s not “her” music. It’s a Dvořák symphony by the Paris philharmonic. And it’s a rehearsal. And it doesn’t matter what you think, it matters whether it’s effective for the musicians and it sounds on point, which is the point. It’s not a TikTok video like you guys are used to.

— Stephen Is My Name (@crazy_stephen_i) November 24, 2024

And also.

Tell me you don’t know what a conductor does without telling me you don’t know what a conductor does. https://t.co/KqVaB7PFaj

— TAKING ZACH SUNDAY (@zachredrup) November 25, 2024

Source @OrchestreParis

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