Talk:Conductorless orchestra

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This is my first wikipedia article that I completed to fulfill the requirements for a class on the Future of Classical Music. I would greatly appreciate feedback, especially on anything wikipedia related, appropriate use of references and external websites, expansion of material included in article, etc. Thanks! SoundMusic (talk) 03:17, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi there. You've done a nice job! I would suggest more citations in the text, especially for statements pertaining to red-linked ensembles. I've also taken the liberty of re-formatting the Notes/References sections. The format used in featured articles is generally to put the inline citations under a References sections in abbreviated form — author, date, page (if any) — and then to give the full bibliographic details in a Sources section which should list the sources in alphabetical order by author's last name or the publisher (if there is no author). As you can see, I've also expanded the information for the various sites you'd listed in the old References section (now under Sources), giving as much information about the source as possible. This is important in case the link goes dead and also helps the reader to know how potentially authoritative the source is. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 13:03, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Hats off to SoundMusic! Not only have you created a decent article, you also found a gapping hole in Wiki that no one else had spotted and all this as a first article!  This article is being linked all over Wiki.  --Jubilee♫ clipman  23:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

"Conductorless Orchestra", New York
According to these program notes and this bio of Adolph Weiss, there was an orchestra founded in 1928 in New York which was actually named "Conductorless Orchestra". The (badly formatted) article on Lucile Lawrence refers to it. Can anybody shed more light on this ensemble? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 09:17, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * See Carol J. Oja, Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s, Oxford University Press, 2003, especially page 199. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 09:43, 26 December 2009 (UTC)