What Does A Conductor Do?

Joanna Lumley & The Maestro

Bauer Media

Music Commentary, Music

4.7 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Lumley has a few questions about her husband’s profession. As well as being a composer and pianist, Stephen Barlow is a conductor - but what does that actually mean? What is it that a conductor actually does? Do they set the speed of the music? How long have they been around for? Are they really needed at all? In this episode Stephen answers these questions and takes us behind the velvet curtain into the backstage life of the conductor.

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0:00.0	Babe, it's Gem.
0:02.0	Just voice-noting you because I'm so busy.
0:05.0	I can't even type right now.
0:06.8	I'm working on that big presentation for my new launch.
0:10.3	I'm making it on Canva Mobile like you suggested.
0:13.1	And it's making everything iconic.
0:16.6	So it's a bit noisy, babe's mards is going off.
0:20.3	Anyways, I'm going to ping the presentation to you now so you can see what I mean.
0:25.1	Yeah, madame.
0:26.0	Got to go, hon.
0:27.3	Thanks for introducing me to Canva.
0:29.3	Love you.
0:30.5	At Liddle, we value all the good that value brings.
0:34.2	But what do you value?
0:36.1	You value the quiet victory of a school run that glides without a
0:39.5	hitch, the lunchbox negotiations. You value filling your boot, bringing everything and everyone to the
0:45.6	table. You value your food, real food, fresh food, quality that speaks for itself. And so do we,
0:53.5	giving you more to value at every step, every day.
0:57.2	Little, more to value.
0:59.7	You can't do much in under five minutes.
1:02.4	Boil an egg.
1:03.4	Sure.
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