It's the most important thing and our conducting pattern always has to have the downbeat of the hand in sync with the strongest impulse in the music , the strong.

这是最为重要的,而我们的指挥手势,总是和着乐曲的强音,做出重拍的动作

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It was his father's sudden death when Gergiev was just 14 that drew him closer to music and eventually led to conducting.

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He was asked about conducting his approach to a piece of music.

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School singers and their jazz band provided campaign music, and students acted as television moderators, conducting interviews and reporting electoral results by fixing either a blue or a red pin to a map of the United States.

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