Craftsmanship

Keeping the Beat: Custom-Made Conducting Batons

August 04, 2023 The Craftsmanship Initiative Season 5 Episode 9
Keeping the Beat: Custom-Made Conducting Batons
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Craftsmanship
Keeping the Beat: Custom-Made Conducting Batons
Aug 04, 2023 Season 5 Episode 9
The Craftsmanship Initiative

A good conductor can lead an orchestra with almost anything — even a chopstick. Leonard Bernstein was known to conduct a full symphony with just his eyebrows. Why, then, in this age of cheap manufacturing, are handmade, customized batons still in demand?

Written by JEFF GREENWALD
Introduction by PAULINE BARTOLONE
Narrated by JEFF GREENWALD
Produced by PAULINE BARTOLONE
Music by
Town Market by Blue Dot Sessions
Palms Down by Blue Dot Sessions
Beethoven’s Sixth (Pastorale) Symphony
Jean-Baptiste Lully: "Armide" 
Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade" by Sinfonia de Galicia
Music of the Ancient World: Sumerian Music I 

Show Notes

A good conductor can lead an orchestra with almost anything — even a chopstick. Leonard Bernstein was known to conduct a full symphony with just his eyebrows. Why, then, in this age of cheap manufacturing, are handmade, customized batons still in demand?

Written by JEFF GREENWALD
Introduction by PAULINE BARTOLONE
Narrated by JEFF GREENWALD
Produced by PAULINE BARTOLONE
Music by
Town Market by Blue Dot Sessions
Palms Down by Blue Dot Sessions
Beethoven’s Sixth (Pastorale) Symphony
Jean-Baptiste Lully: "Armide" 
Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade" by Sinfonia de Galicia
Music of the Ancient World: Sumerian Music I