{"id":477,"date":"2019-04-02T13:53:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/?p=477"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:56:10","slug":"issue-8-visual-and-alternative-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Issue 8: Visual and Alternative Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to Issue 8 &#8211; this one\nhas taken a slightly different direction, approaching the conductor\u2019s work in\nways that are rarely discussed in training. The first interview is with Andrew\nGourlay, Music Director of OSCyL. Our conversation explored the challenges of\nconducting music inspired by a single visual image. Rachmaninov\u2019s enigmatic\nsymphonic poem <em>The Isle of the Dead<\/em> (inspired\nby B\u00f6cklin\u2019s\npainting of the same title) is a piece particularly close to Andrew\u2019s heart,\nand one he has recently recorded with OSCyL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following Andrew is Holly Mathieson, Co-Artistic Director of the Nevis Ensemble, and until recently the Assistant Conductor at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She suggested the discussion of rhetorical gesture (a topic she explored in depth in her PhD) which subsequently inspired the focus of this issue. Holly\u2019s dance training also gives her an interesting take on this subject, and her observations and experiences are sure to influence the way you approach and consider your own gestural and body language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final interview is with conductor\nand presenter Charles Hazlewood. He is Artistic Director of the Paraorchestra \u2013\nmost well known for its unforgettable appearance at the Closing Ceremony of the\n2012 Paralympics in London. Charles founded the ensemble in 2011, and describes\nit as a \u2018pan-disabled\u2019 orchestra. In this set-up, alternative communication is taken\ninto unchartered territories \u2013 with not only the conductor reinventing his\nrole, but also with the incorporation of groundbreaking adaptations for\ndisabled musicians. It would be wonderful this interview inspired some readers\nto set up similar initiatives \u2013 it\u2019s high time they were commonplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been a real pleasure to explore conducting from this perspective. Huge thanks to Andrew, Holly and Charles for sharing their wisdom and insights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Hannah Baxter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Issue 8 &#8211; this one has taken a slightly different direction, approaching the conductor\u2019s work in ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","pmpro-has-access","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YX8Q-7H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}