4-3 Conductor

In a huge orchestra, the conductor is the most important role in an orchestra. Similar to a director of a movie, the conductor is as the “soul” of the orchestra. In administration of an orchestra, the conductor plays the role to unify the musicians and lead the orchestra; in concert performances, the conductor’s ways and approaches to present and describes the music and his or her own music literacy will greatly impact how a piece of music is a presented. Thus, he or she has to face the musicians, to express his or her understandings and appreciations of the music work and to influence the entire orchestra. Consequently, the success or the failure of a successful concert is closely related to the conductor of the orchestra.

In actual concert performance, not all the musicians in the orchestra would keep looking at the conductor during the entire performance. For the reasons that before the actual performances, they already develop a sense of tactic agreement with the conductor and they already know how each piece of music work will be played during the concert. Thus, they will only “glance at the conductor” from time to time during the performance. However, this “little glance” is way enough to show the unity of an orchestra and whether or not they reach the unified coordination.