[Dixielandjazz] Re: Bouncing Sound - Was Monitors03

[Rev M J (Mike) Logsdon]

> But I have a further, perhaps stupid, question. How do 100 piece symphony orchestras do it?  Do they all have monitors? Or do they block out the delayed sounds, or the sound in
> total and just follow the baton?

Others have already answered this, but I do have to say that the one, 
and only, experiential lesson in this issue was during my college days 
and the annual Polychoral Festival held at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 
Riverside, CA, where choirs from all over Riverside and San Bernardino 
would gather in the stone cathedral-like church (built in medieval 
cruciform, though Protestant!) to sing poly-chorally.

We had it drilled into us before each rehearsal that we must simply 
forget the "sound" exists, and watch OUR conductor, who was, in turn 
forgetting WE existed and watching THE OTHER conductors, who were 
watching him, who were watching each other, etc.  And since we were 
greatly spread out (various parts of the ground floor, the balcony, the 
chancel, choir loft, etc), it meant the conductors had to stand 
essentially at near-right angles to their choirs so as to see the other 
conductors without craning their heads too far.  My only regret is that 
no recordings were made, to the best of my knowledge, so I never really 
"heard" what it sounded like,
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Etc,

Rev M J "Mike" Logsdon, Deacon
http://www.naorc.org