Maestro

Description: BBC / Music / How well can you conduct the orchestra?

Newest Review: ... impressed at their efforts in learning to conduct - which is by no means easy! Every week the programme follows a similar format. We see each of the celebrities in turn being given some music which after practice they will be conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra.Each week has a different theme and last night it was opera so in addition to the orchestra they had to work with opera singers as ... more

... well - either Alfie Boe or Rebecca Evans. They are also facing a panel of judges made up of professional conductors who each have to put in their points of view before awarding marks. At the end of each programme the contestants with the lowest mark ...more

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Maestro: You just wave a stick in the air - don't you? (747 words)
by - written on 03/09/08 (Very useful, 270 readings)
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Just lately I have really been loving my Tuesday night viewing and it's all down to a little publicised programme on BBC2 called Maestro. You might think it's another of those programmes about celebrities doing things different from their day jobs - which it is- but it's all absolutely fascinating viewing as well! It's quite similar to the format of Strictly Come Dancing (which I love) but here the celebrities are not learning how to ballroom dance but how to conduct an orchestra. It started with eight celebrities all setting out to learn how to be a conductor with the ultimate prize being their own chance to conduct the orchestra on The Last Night of the ... Read the complete review

Baton Rouge! (1456 words)
by - written on 02/09/08 (Very useful, 153 readings)
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Maestro is yet another reality show that takes celebrities out of their comfort zone and let them have a crack at a skill they may, like the viewer; think is easier than it looks. There are two versions of this format. One is where the challenge is genuinely tough and the celebrities will have to commit themselves to the task ahead. The second is the one where we are here just to see the celebrity humiliated through an inane exercise and, of course, they are fully aware of that, but desperate to get the work to stay in the limelight for one last flicker of fame. Although those shows can be fun-Celebrity Big Brother, they can also be banal- 'CelebAir' being the latest and ... Read the complete review

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