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Why do some composers gesticulate wildly, while others reserve their composure?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZdwam7wgw is based on just one piece, Mahler's Symphony 2, and a sample size of one from which we can't conclude anything. But I've noticed these wildly different levels of extroversion! Pierre Boulez, Mravinsky, Claudio Abbado tend to stay still and not make faces. Leonard Bernstein, Gustavo Dudamel usually gesture and jitter overzealously.

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10 Rep‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Mahler is an epic composer.... some people are like that. They feel the music in them, and they want to express it like that. Professionals do that... it's just a thing. Plus if you want a symphony to which people really gesticulate wildly, may I suggest Shostakovich op 103 symphony 11?