{"id":19977,"date":"2014-08-05T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=19977"},"modified":"2014-08-04T19:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:09:36","slug":"video-the-dancing-conductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/08\/05\/video-the-dancing-conductor\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The dancing conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/Joseph-R.-Olefirowicz.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/Joseph-R.-Olefirowicz.jpeg\" alt=\"Joseph R. Olefirowicz\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/Joseph-R.-Olefirowicz.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/Joseph-R.-Olefirowicz-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my (not so) secret pleasures is watching conductors do their thing. And in the case of one of my favourites, the late Carlos Kleiber, they are utterly mesmerizing to watch.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I\u2019ve found a wonderful video of conductor Joseph R. Olefirowicz &#8220;dancing&#8221; during a four minute respite in the Leonard Bernstein\u2019s <em>Candide,<\/em> with the Vienna Volksoper. It is the dream overture of any young conductor, and was shot by an infrared camera used for lighting cues by the stage manager, who just had to share it with the world.<\/p>\n<p>I love how\u00a0Olefirowicz&#8217;s has such faith in the orchestra to simply allow them to play, while guiding the phrasing. These are clearly\u00a0musicians\u00a0living in the moment of\u00a0absolute joy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJU0lC3iHaY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my (not so) secret pleasures is watching conductors do their thing. And in the case of one of my favourites, the late Carlos Kleiber, they are utterly mesmerizing to watch. This week, I\u2019ve found a wonderful video of conductor Joseph R. Olefirowicz &#8220;dancing&#8221; during a four minute respite in the Leonard Bernstein\u2019s Candide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,875,66],"tags":[639,4811,1939],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/Joseph-R.-Olefirowicz.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-5cd","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19977"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19988,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19977\/revisions\/19988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19977"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}