Conductor Fails Compilation

[@PokeShadow77]

1:04 When you're on a high ping server and your attack animation plays

[@MonoBleedingEdge]

what this conductor does is actually correct. conductors always make their gestures beforehand, so the instrument players can play the sound, the way conductor shows them.

[@xamuca22]

@@MonoBleedingEdge Yes but not 5 seconds before

[@NoThisIsWeber]

He looks like Tchaikovsky lol

[@thebagelman2852]

@@MonoBleedingEdge it is true that conductor show gestures like crescendos and decrescendos before the eu happen in the music, but the beats are supposed to happen together 😂

[@tomedy_official]

I thought the orchestra were being jerks

[@bolemirnoc604]

0:20 is trumpet player fail, MTT's cue was right.

[@Ardjano234]

That player was fucking sleeping

[@Ardjano234]

@Lucas Gawor the trumpetist

[@stevouk]

@Lucas Gawor Michael Tilson Thomas

[@stevouk]

@Lucas Gawor the conductor's name is Michael Tilson Thomas.

[@ricarleite]

Yeah I was in doubt if the trumpet or the conductor was wrong

[@Muzakman37]

Bernstein was just too cool for school. He loses the baton, laughs it off, 5 seconds later appears with another one, like it was nothing. Smooth as hell.

[@paradoxps927]

0:42 The baton bounces in sync!

[@StocksIn60Seconds]

If I had a nickel every time students dropped their batons in conducting class tho...

[@sidneyali]

I saw a conductor accidentally throwing his baton at a concert once, and I have to say, it was pretty damn hilarious

[@sitsia3808]

xd

[@StocksIn60Seconds]

Jerry Junkin!!! He is incredible...although a bit overhyped.

[@thecloverthatatetheworld9882]

The only thing funnier than that is actually being in the band
I would know

[@Taylor-lp2pd]

r u still alive? its been three years
pls come backk

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

I saw a conductor throwing his baton in my eye. It was not so pretty damn hilarious

[@ikmarchini]

The great thing about conducting is no one hears your mistakes. But the orchestra knows.

[@user-op6vy3gg2b]

And conductors get paid the most. Good job.

[@JonatasMonte]

@@user-op6vy3gg2b They're the ones responsible for the whole interpretation of the piece. It's not like he just hits play and the orchestra does the rest.
Just like any management position gets a bigger paycheck.

[@user-op6vy3gg2b]

@@JonatasMonte Thanks

[@cynicaldrummer286]

Yeah, but he's in charge of the orchestra as well so they can't really complain. Or can they, idk?

[@JohnJApanovitch]

As a conductor myself, I can relate to this a whole ton. I've dropped my baton on several occasions while conducting, and it isn't really an uncommon thing. Conductors do it all the time. But it's still funny!

[@crazydavec3861]

Do you get a disciplinary if you make too many mistakes...y'know... for ... mis-conduct! 😁

[@JohnJApanovitch]

@@crazydavec3861 I love the pun!

[@crazydavec3861]

@@JohnJApanovitch Don't encourage 'im! 😉

[@Pravdaband]

Yep! I have many times dropped or caught the baton on the stand and it went wildly flying

[@marshallartz395]

@@crazydavec3861:Excellent!
😎🎹

[@RobiiiYT]

The second one was the trumpets mistake

[@mrfire4786]

what piece is the second one

[@vesteel]

@@mrfire4786 mahler symphony 7

[@DeathRocket4990]

@@mrfire4786 0:13

[@mrfire4786]

@@vesteel thankyou I was looking for it for a long time

[@SoBeIt9033]

@@vesteel Thanks! Do you know 00:41, 00:48, and 01:19 as well? It's okay if you don't know all. 😁

[@kaleidoscopio5]

Bernstein did it on purpose. He even had another baton ready 😂

[@tarakb7606]

I think so too.

[@ransomcoates546]

@@tarakb7606 I'd sooner think he always had a spare at hand because he realized he was, to say the least, an energetic conductor.

[@tarakb7606]

@@ransomcoates546 You may well be right.

[@SarahJones-wy5us]

kaleidoscope5 Really...Really? world class conductors always have a spare near by.

[@johnrandolph6121]

Anyone who conducts has thrown a baton before. I have no doubt that it was unintentional.

[@SrAustria]

Once during rehearsal, my conductor made a gesture so violent he threw his sheet music out of his music stand and onto the viola section. It was hilarious, specially considering that the viola section was made up of 3 violas.

[@insulini]

1:04 When you summon an Expelliarmus but nothing is coming out from the wand.

[@pianoforte1720]

Happens to me everyday here at Hogwarts

[@u.v.s.5583]

It was supposed to be an avada in the key of kedavra.

[@JonatasMonte]

It was so comical when he picked a spare baton. It's as if he was expecting it to happen.

[@IZn0g0uDatAll]

I play in a symphony orchestra for a living. Once during a rehearsal the conductor baton's got stuck in his stand and flew in the air, and I yelled "EXPILLIARMUS"
Nobody laughed.

[@diogofernandesb]

I just did

[@popechadwickbongwaterfortn5668]

Did you get fired

[@SHx589]

Hilarious 😂

[@joetowers4804]

I can imagine it and it seems hilarious.

[@IZn0g0uDatAll]

Nop. They just thought I was a weirdo.

[@food1sh]

1:04 is actually just the conductor being ahead of the symphony for some reason. Some famous conductors do this for whatever reason but it helps the players anticipate events in the song

[@samdajellybeenie14]

No it’s not. That conductor looks like he has no idea what he’s doing. He’s literally 2 seconds ahead of the orchestra, it’s impossible to play off that.

[@Sylvscats]

HAHAH my conductor has lost his baton at a concert last year, he threw it up and tried catching it about 3 times until it flew in between the violists and cellists 😂

[@Nigelrathbone1]

Bernstein prepared like set drummers who always have extra reserve sticks. Just casually reloads as if nothing happened.

[@saboo_tage]

I died when Bernstein took up the 2nd baton 😂😂

[@kingraiderr]

First guy got used to losing his stick so he came prepared

[@bergeronscores605]

First one is Bernstein in one of the best parts of Sibelius 2. His performance of that with the Vienna Phil is my favorite music performance.

[@violinsinthevoid4579]

When I saw Bernstein in the thumbnail, I knew he would make a quick comeback and make it look almost deliberate.

[@yummyyum36719]

Some of these were not "fails" but just planned comedy routines. The Beethoven 5 thing is interesting. Perhaps the conductor was planning to give several beats for free so that the orchestra could see the tempo before they come in. That work is legendary for being hard to start. Solti used to give three full bars in 1 before bringing the orchestra in but he conducted the 3 beats as though he was in 4. It worked, but it isn't what one is "supposed to do".

[@Icedmanta]

This is more of a style than anything- many ensembles begin after the conductor gives the initial cue. The delay is almost the orchestra reacting to itself, as it chooses to be more independent of the conductor's time. Notice that the ensemble cuts off directly in time with him though, before again delaying the entrance to the next phrase.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

@@Icedmanta I never saw so much delay before. It's very confusing for a harpist, whose strings speak immediately.

[@SapereAudio]

@@Icedmantathe Beethoven is weird because it starts on the second quaver of the bar, after the conductor’s downbeat.

[@Nigelrathbone1]

Love MTT'S positive reaction to the delayed trumpet entrance. As if to say,"Marvelous of you to show up to the party. Better late than not at all."

[@sneddley]

It’s OK that Leonard Bernstein lost his baton: he quickly grew another.

[@SirConto]

A fun historic fact: Beethoven often conducted his own music. Later in his life when he was deaf, he still sometimes insisted on doing so, which went terribly. And then there were a few concerts where organizers humoured him by letting him conduct, but placed another conductor somewhere behind him out of his field of view that the orchestra was actually playing on.

[@villain7140]

we already know, he's in the video 1:03

[@AlejandroParis]

1:25 how much amplification does she need?

[@simon-di7xt]

That was bean

[@zomb7138]

Ikr, it takes the natural sound away

[@mogmason6920]

Enough to boost her ego!

[@diegeigergarnele7975]

Singers nowadays be like lol

[@HeyKevinYT]

you know Mr Bean is great when you laugh right when he appears and before the laugh track plays

[@drewshannon5465]

The Beethoven piece was not a mistake on the conductors part. That was completely intentional. Orchestral conductors often conduct ahead of the orchestra so the players can react to what they see.

[@frogmouth]

They always do. You can conduct with less anticipation in a small space with a few musicians or singers only..also the 5th doesn't start on the first beat in the bar. Look at the score..

[@davidtatro7457]

Mr. Bean is like a modern day, foul tempered Victor Borge.

[@ParanoeX]

that Mr. Bean one is scripted (its Mr. Bean....) but it made me laugh xD

[@ParanoeX]

that second last one is also Rowan Atkinson's sketch

[@YTQadron]

WOW REALYL

[@k.g.47]

No, I think he wrote some etudes a while back. Check them out

[@jomarvisperas2695]

Mr. Bean is a legendary conductor.

[@constancemack3185]

Timothy...thanks for the laughs!!! I typed in Symphony Conductors are Weird....and this popped up!! I do think conductors have an aura of weirdness around them!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@andreaguarino8207]

Solti pierced his own hands while he was conducting the Tannhäuser

[@stephenyaness5008]

Copland did that too in New Orleans. Saw him backstage nursing his wounded palm.

[@stefanstern7851]

Lost the stick once during rehearsal... tight pit, caught it on a music stand right in front of me. Funny! It was flying!

[@kariwhitt8928]

Last October, my band teacher accidentally threw his baton while we were rehearsing. The baton hit my stand a little bit and it caused my music to fall out of my stand, and the flute player next to me gave the baton back to him. I didn't see him lose his baton because I was so focused on my music, but I felt it hitting my stand.

[@jackburns535]

Our director throws the baton very often, the first time of the year is always the funniest.

[@joewaschl8285]

Bernstein is that you?😂

[@todessehnsucht]

1:04 schoppenhaur be lagged as hell lmfao

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

The last one was the best one.

[@alasdairblack393]

Hell, that’s nothing! As a first violinist with the Iceland S.O. My bow hand got so sweaty I lost my bow, made a grab for it in the air which made it summersault right into the first row of the audience. Fortunately the bow survived. The kind man passed it back to me and I carried on as if nothing happened. Weirdest thing ever.

[@jefolson6989]

Mr Bean doesn't count. These aren't fails, just greasy fingers.

[@grandduke011]

The last one was the best!!

[@EngPheniks]

Haha, Bean is the best

[@seanbaldevieso9654]

This is funny 1:46

[@turquisestones]

With Mister Bean those were not fails, but rather moments of genious! :)

[@CaesiumAKAPianoslam]

Corpo du’n dio santisimo,
Contrabassi!
You are always late!

[@sawyergoldfeder4418]

Anyone else's choir teacher assign this for you to watch during quarantine

[@winlawson7341]

Can't blame the first conductor for getting to excited at Sibelius

[@Nigelrathbone1]

When I conducted band I hated those splinters I would get from tapping cheap fiberglass batons on the music stand.

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

Teacher: what was your favorite instrument?
Me: *the hammer*

[@sgnmath1234]

Mr. Bean doesn't count. That's how Rowan Atkinson makes a living

[@bsb3210]

Is a conductor basically just a hype man?

[@Zurvan101]

The inclusion of Mr Bean made it all the more special.

[@christianschneider5511]

The conductor can do what he wants, we play how we want!

[@reginabillotti]

Not sure including a bit from a comedy movie or TV show (the one with Rowan Atkinson) fits the theme

[@rviolinfiddle55]

So Bernstein drops his baton (an everyday occurrence) and WITHOUT BREAKING THE PHRASE OR LOSS OF GESTURE, seamlessly continues conducting while simultaneously retrieving a backup baton and continuing. How is that possibly considered a fail?
Mediocrity, I do not absolve you.

[@awyoung706]

That Chili Klaus tease tho

[@JamieSmith-fz2mz]

A few dropped batons is all they could come up.
It would have been more interesting to show conductors conducting in the wrong key.

[@Nigelrathbone1]

Or wrong meter.

[@chikititus]

01:02 MORRI! O velho parece que tá tendo um derrame cara! >.

[@haxs-6564]

Kkkkkkkkk

[@nickdavis965]

Ive had a flying baton nail me once.

[@sitsia3808]

oof

[@princessm6355]

Big whoop if you lose your baton at least you got both hands

[@TheCubicplanet]

Expelliarmus!

[@eddyyaeji6769]

I hate you so much for making me laugh that

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

Don't worry, Leopold conducted without a baton.

[@spanishmasterpieces5203]

Mr. Bean is the best conductor!

[@MrDavide914]

That might be the one and only funny Mr. Bean' s sketch I ever saw

[@JonatasMonte]

0:03 _And Away We Go_

[@johnjohnston6529]

Some victor borge would be a nice addition

[@michaelheintz8853]

I saw George Szell lose his baton twice in the same concert.

[@spencerwinellcomposer]

EVEN LENNY

[@spicyowl3348]

Even if they throw him out of the stage,They can play even without him actually

[@nickhickson8738]

Precisely. May be useful at a rehearsal but otherwise mearly ostentation.

[@janeesplana1398]

1:27 here comes the electric fan

[@salamander26671]

i didnt even notice the condoctor fail for 0:28 bc i was distracted by the uhh interesting "interpretation" of tchaikovsky rococo variations

[@ngyuhng8324]

Lol that first one isn't a fail, its a total win. The conductor was completely prepared, he didn't stop conducting, and midscore, he took out a spare baton that he had prepared before the performance.

[@crustyairpods]

2 Mr bean, 2 5th Symphony

[@andrewnguyen1890]

1:27
When Bychkov learning to be a good conductor

[@risyalf.1868]

1:02 anyone know the name of the conductor?

[@jorderis]

Masato Usuki

[@johndoyle-sims8583]

It's funny, it wasn't a fail, classical musicians react to a beat, they don't keep in time with the conducted
They just react, which is kinda funny

[@randyedward1]

It's got to be Leopold Stokowski, lived to be 95.

[@RadagonTheRed]

1:34 - Eurgh. Brass section fail also.

[@hairyputter5363]

Here's a guy who thinks Mr. Bean belongs here.
Press F for respect

[@catycat28meow]

0:38: Expelliarmus!

[@antisuz183]

Please save me from my own ignorance. I absolutely love classical music because it is so beautiful, but I am no expert and have zero knowledge of all the technical stuff people always comment on. How on earth does the conductor conduct if the orchestra members/singers never look at him? LOL I know they can't do without him - telepathy perhaps?

[@rileywine8253]

The conductors job isn't always as essential as it may seem. Some conductors like to let the orchestra conduct itself once they get going. But to answer your question, most people are watching the conductor using their peripheral vision, while their head faces the music in front of them.

[@greeng7899]

His role is more proeminent during rehearsals. He makes the whole piece work and he gives the piece its own flavor

[@peteraschaffenburg1]

The conductor does most of his work during rehearsal. Most good musicians know when to look at the conductor for cues or changing tempi. Does that make sense?

[@frogmouth]

Peripheral vision

[@jip8793]

They look but it's a quick stare, if you look on videos with close-ups you can see that the people look up very often. In opera they look all the time because they have to suit up to singers which only the conductor see and only he knows how to match it up together. But often pieces from Classical Era like Mozart is conducted by the concert master and there is no real need to look. If the conductor is extremely bad and incompetent people don't bother to look either. But if there is a real maestro.conducting he requires eye contact all the time. It's intimidating as hell.

[@rackets001]

I heard of a conductor accidentally impaling his opposite hand with the baton. Too bad there wasn't a camera.

[@stephenyaness5008]

As I wrote above, I saw Aaron Copland do that in New Orleans. Backstage he was nursing his punctured palm with his handkerchief.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Haven't some players been impaled?

[@nicholasfox966]

That's the trumpeter's error, not Tilson Thomas's.

[@Nigelrathbone1]

But MTT'S response was so kind.

[@stefanmladenov6016]

0:05 "fuck off"

[@transitny]

If you don't use a baton, can your arm detach?

[@samuelgebhardt2176]

0:13 Which piece is this?

[@maximilianpetz599]

G. Mahler Symphony VII. Movement 1, 3 bars before No. 37

[@SoBeIt9033]

@@maximilianpetz599 Thanks! Do you know 00:41, 00:48, and 01:19 as well? It's okay if you don't know all. 😁

[@andrescalle2236]

What is the name of the piece that starts at 0:28? Sounds really nice

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

What is going on at 1:18? I don't see it. Or why she has a microphone on her face, or is that a beetle?

[@RedaktionBiz]

You mix Rowan Atkinson sketches in as "conductor fail", ridicoulos, unfair, uncreative and fake. It's you who fails!

[@alasdairblack393]

Who was conducting?…….don’t know, I never look!

[@fotochips5300]

Mr bean is the best conductor

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

You forgot "Leopold".

[@FoxBoi69]

not to soudn disrespectful or anything, but i never got the point in this dancing guy in the front

[@maestroclassico5801]

Who is that at 1:07 ? What is he 105?

[@JonatasMonte]

Not a fail, but you could have included the one where Gustavo Dudamel is trying to throw a spell on the orchestra. I believe it's while conducting Beethoven's 5th

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Is that the one with the mic'ed singer?

[@alexdioguardii]

Mr Bean ahahaha

[@xadcat2924]

Wtf mr bean?

[@MetalHarp]

Mr Bean is a fail? Really? Come on...

[@spanishmasterpieces5203]

Bean makes mistakes all the time!

[@stuartmclaren2402]

I wonder how some orchestras follow some conductors and if a problem they apparently get in and follow the leader. Some of these conductors have a pretty high ego and at a dress rehearsal of a professional orchestra, one was pretty obnoxious putting down players who had to sit there and take his snips and then bullying the pianist it do it his way. While the pianist appeared to agree, he basically did his own thing at the concert and good on him. Needless to say the orchestra voted not to have this conductor return again

[@ansenabella6904]

bernstein hahahhaha

[@kermit1234]

Forgot to add bugs bunny: th-cam.com/video/BX1ljYx3g3k/w-d-xo.html