Ellen Taaffe Zwillich - Clarino Quartet Part 2 of 2

[ybravura]

Since when does a sextette (playing a 4tet?) need a conductor? If he weren't there waving his arms, would they all get lost?

[thisguy41487]

@ybravura  I'm the second on the left. And yes, we would have died if he hadn't conducted because one of our members was incapable of counting.

[thisguy41487]

@ybravura And we made it a sextet because we had the music and that is how many people we happened to have had that year. Also, there were balance issues between the stronger players who played the harder parts on top and the weaker players who played the slightly less hard parts on the bottom, so it was divided up in order to add balance to the group.