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Wild things: Conductors at the 2013 Proms
Wild things: Conductors at the 2013 Proms
Feast on our annual gallery of baton men and women
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"What I’m looking for is that fraction of a second that at least I could remember the concert by." At the start of the 2013 BBC Proms season, photographer Chris Christodoulou let theartsdesk into the secret of snapping conductors at work. Now that the Proms are over for another year, we publish not the official shots, but the ones which are simply too quirky to be released by the BBC press office.
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It's not about 'favourite
It's not about 'favourite conductors', it's about Chris's choice of what he thinks are the most interesting images from the Proms. You will find his images of Gergiev three years running in his 2010, 2011 and 2012 Proms galleries ('The Art of Conducting') for The Arts Desk.