Anyone who has ever attended a classical concert has surely watched the conductor up there on the podium and wondered, ‘What do they actually do’?
Nicholas Braithwaite, now Conductor Laureate with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, is one of our most esteemed conductors. The son of British conductor Warwick Braithwaite, he began his life in music playing the trombone as a child and said self-deprecatingly that he became a conductor ‘through lack of initiative’. Braithwaite acknowledges the essential mystery of the conductor’s role.
