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1. What is the name given to the person who directs the orchestra?
2. After bowing to the audience, as the orchestra's director, you turn around and face the orchestra.
You are about to get start the music....what do you do to get your orchestra's attention?
3. What would you most likely be wearing as the director of an orchestra?
4. Who would you be looking at if, as the orchestra's director, you looked at the 'front row' of the orchestra in front of you?
5. Looking at the orchestra as its director, which musicians would you find behind the viola section your left hand side?
6. If you were looking at the orchestra as its director, what instruments would the musicians behind the woodwind section be playing?
7. Which of these instruments would not be found in the percussion section of an orchestra?
8. The pianoforte, or grand piano, would normally be found on the left hand side at the back of the orchestra. In what section of the orchestra would the piano normally be found?
9. What is the angelic instrument that can sometimes found on the left hand side of the orchestra?
10. I am generally in awe of people who direct an orchestra. Do they need to be able to read music?
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JJMcGiver
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