Careful Steps

[caulkrocket]

This week went fast. It also went reasonably well, which kind of scares me. Things just don't seem right when I think, "Hey, today was a good day." If I think that I've had consecutive good days, then I really start to worry. I don't know why, but I'm afraid that having good days will result in a plane crashing directly on top of me, or a papercut

Comments

[jeffxl]

So when you conduct this band.... after the piece is done, do you immediately walk off stage, wait back there a minute or so, and then strut back out to be greeted by thunderous applause? I never understood why conductors did that.

[caulkrocket]

I still don't know the reason why they do it, but it's mainly because it has been a tradition for a very, very long time. How it started, I don't know. I could ask for you.
And no I don't, I just say thanks and walk back to my section. They all clap out of pity.

[jeffxl]

Pity claps rule, almost as much as slow claps. You should get them to slow clap for you.