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[Lingon]

The subject was changed here pretty quickly from "tuba players playing late" to "it's the fault of conductors", wasn't it?

Of course - it's (nearly) always the conductor's fault.

Well, it does happen every now and then that a conductor at some rehearsal leaves the conductor's podium and goes out in the audience area for checking up the balance when the orchestra plays. Almost always the orchestra plays tighter when that happens, then when the conductor returns it might be a bit muddy again. So...

Some of this may also fall back on the earlier discussion about bad stage acoustics but isn't it relatively clear that it almost always is the conductor's fault when just a single musician plays before or after the beat?

Very seldom I have worked with tubists that plays late, in many situations the tuba player is early and the orchestra late, irrespective of the tuba is small or large?!...

[tubeast]

I wonder why it is that people mention a "band player´s director".
Whats so "inprofessional" about musicians following the conductor spot-on ?
The performance would clearly turn from the conductor´s into the orchestra´s interpretation otherwise, wouldn´t it ?

(I´m not saying that would be a bad idea at all times)

I always feel more comfortable when I play for a conductor who may point to his baton-hand occasionally to catch players that "get carried away".

[Bacchanalia]

Mr. Pokorney...is a master of what I would call 'playing in your own resonance', where he always seems to not stop, but rather fast fade the air on note endings and then snatch a breath, effectively having the note still resonating and sounding like continous sound while breathing for the next entrance. Make the hall work for you.

I know this was several posts back...but I have heard a recording he did of standard orchestral excerpts where in each track he describes the passage and various info about the what audition panels are frequently looking for, yada, yada... In one of them he talks about that specifically