Confident with your back to the audience

Tremelo strings begin with your gesturing wrist

Start the orchestra slow with an elegant aire

Then a circular sweep crescendoing swell

Leo Slatkin, Dohnanyi, Previne, Depaur

(Chorus)

Your arms are calling out

They wave like a swarm of sound

You pull the sound from scores of notes

You step the stage and take control

You're conducting Verése in a moment of silence

Your body directs a pulse of wind

Von Karjan, Hampton, Menuhin, Levine

(Chorus x2)

"Control"