Awwww.
I wish the baton had stayed in his nose and he'd carried on without it.

Incidentally, is it true that the baton isn't really necessary?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 21 Jan 2010, 18:12, 2 replies)

Yeah
It's a stick, you can just use your finger as long as everyone can see (oo-er missus!)
(Saaandwich, Thu 21 Jan 2010, 22:03, closed)

^it does leave some nice possibilities, though
I'm trying to convince one of my friends to conduct the Fireworks music with an indoor sparkler. Hopefully it'll get smaller and smaller so he'll have to exaggerate more and more... should be interesting. :D

And OP, this is even funnier than I thought the first time! :D **click**

EDIT: For the hell of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w90NkyUEMB8
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 8:04, closed)

cheers!
It is one of the most memorable gigs I've done... there was a prom we did (Brahms' German Requiem) which I remember chiefly because the baritone soloist was Simon Keenleyside and I spent the entire concert staring at his arse...
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 10:15, closed)

eh
That's what requiems were written for.

EDIT: What do you play? From experience as a wind player we're lucky if we get a glimpse of elbow...
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:48, closed)

flute/picc.

EDIT: I mention Simon Keenleyside's arse because it is one of the most beautiful trouse-clad bottoms I have ever seen. I was happy to spend the concert looking at it.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 11:13, closed)

Yep
as long as the conductor can keep the orchestra together, playing the right notes at the right time (in the right order), and get across whatever emotions/dynamics/etc they want, they can conduct with anything: their hands, a shitty stick, a small mongoloid puppy. The world is their oyster.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 10:14, closed)