Playing with Fire: Jeannette Sorrell and the Mysteries of Conducting

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Jeannette Sorrell, told by the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Orchestra that no one will hire a woman conductor, forms her own Baroque orchestra, Apollo's Fire, to immediate acclaim. This is the first film that demonstrates how a conductor converts the dots on a printed score into musical phrases she can hear, and how the musicians almost miraculously transform her expressive gestures into an exciting performance