I left college to become a free-lance photographer. But I feel confident about the choices I made for this portfolio. I tried to photograph every conductor I had ever heard of, if not actually heard, at the time. There are some portraits that I ve not been able to include yet, and a few I won t ever be able to include. Fifth Symphony sound familiar to anyone who doesn t know a portamento from a pimento.
Conductors are less recognizable by their faces than by their performances.
After all, we mostly see them from behind. Even concertgoers and audiophiles find it difficult to conjure up more than a few mental pictures of conductors even the much televised face of the late Leonard Bernstein. We get to explore a group of musical icons, literally, face to face. I did my best to complete this medley of portraits within a concise frame of time. I had only moderate success.