Conductors and their batons: does size matter? | Tom Service

Too big, and you risk giving yourself gangrene. Too small, and ... well, actually you don't even need one. Are maestros too attached to their batons?Of all the conductorly fetishes, this, surely, is the most ridiculous of all. The hair? The intense stare into the middle-distance? The eyes closed in rapture? No – the baton. Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT, to his friends and presumably to save time when he's signing autographs) has been telling the San Francisco Chronicle about his relationship...

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