Comments on: How Do I Become a Broadway Conductor?

By: Jon Moody

Jon Moody — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:30:54 +0000

Brilliant article, David. I am amazed at how many musicians I play with (I live in Kalamazoo, MI which is home to the aforementioned Western Michigan University) have no concept of the friendship aspect of networking. You never know how much weight that stranger you’re sitting next to in a pit carries.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:12:24 +0000

Wow, this response was amazing… Im also an undergrad freshman currently enrolling at Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music. M

Music is my passion, and being able to conduct is something I truly will strive for. Your advise was so influential and made me believe that becoming and a Broadway conductor is possible but with a lot of hard work.

Thank You again for your advise it was great!

By: gene

gene — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:24:41 +0000

hey, I graduated from Duquesne in 1986 ( BS Pharmacy ) and I always had a secret penchant to hang out in the music school, as I was facinated with this gal who played harp. Best of luck to you, and follow your dream. I wish I had and I will always encourage others to take that path less followed.

Oh! to be a conductor, to weld a hundred men into one singing giant, to build up the most gorgeous arabesques of sound, to wave a hand and make the clamoring strings sink to a mutter, to wave again, and hear the brass crashing out in triumph, to throw up a finger, then another and another, and to know that with every one the orchestra would bound forward into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one’s hand, and then to set them all singing and soaring in one final sweep, with the cymbals clashing at every flicker of one’s eyelid, to sound the grand Amen.

—J.B. Priestley

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:38:03 +0000

Good luck Bob! I graduated from DU in 2006 with a degree in music ed. Duquesne is one of the lesser known music schools. Don’t get discouraged if you’re not successful right away.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:31:09 +0000

What a fabulous, considered response – nice post.

May your dreams come true Bob, ;-)

By: Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:37:38 +0000

Hey Bob,

That’s awesome that you have big ambitions. I hope you achieve your dreams! If you’re a freshman at Dusqesne, do you happen to know a freshmen cellist named Pam? (shorter, thin, dark brown shoulder length hair.)

Off chance, but if you do, tell her Ryan said hey!