How Conductors Rehearse an Orchestra

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In this clip we'll be talking about rehearsing an orchestra and the various things you will do to get an orchestra ready for a concert. So the first thing is, you'll want to rehearse, you know, run the piece the first time. And this is more for a lot of youth orchestra situations, younger orchestras, orchestras that aren't at the top of the, you know, the playing level, that are not quite professional orchestras. And, so you'll want to, you'll want to run the piece at least once, twice, maybe three times and give everyone an idea of what the piece sounds like together. It's okay if it doesn't sound that great at the beginning with a youth orchestra especially. It will by the end. And so you'll run it a couple of times. Once you feel like you've gotten the most out of running it without having them work it, you'll let them take it home for a week or whatever and they will come back the next week, or the next day whenever you rehearse again, and you will have, have them sometimes go into sectionals. And you'll either have the sectional run by the section leader of each section. So the concert master might take the first violins or the first and second violins and have a sectional. You know, the, the oboe player might take the woodwinds, whatever; whoever your leader player is of each section will take those sections. And sometimes you'll go with a certain section. Or you'll run a section that needs help. And you'll go into different rooms at a different time or at the same time and run a sectional. And you will have them work out their own part and then the ensemble, how it fits into their little ensemble. So the woodwinds would go with the woodwinds, or the flutes might just go by themselves. And then it, they see how it feels with just the woodwinds there and then you put them back into the orchestra and of course they sound a lot better because the whole thing melds together much better. So a lot of times, you'll, you know, you'll need extra rooms and stuff for that, but you can either do it at a separate time, or sometimes you'll have the orchestra, you know, only the woodwinds will come this week or only the brass or whatever. So it just depends on your situation.

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