My own view is that it would be best were the conductor invisible to the audience, similarly to how the director of a motion picture or television program is.
This is hardly to suggest that their role is lessened thereby, but rather if anything heightened.
Sensationalizing and over dramatizing conducting has had a deleterious effect on the whole culture of music.
The greatest conductor should be one whom the audience hardly notices, but to whom the orchestra, and if applicable, the cast, pays fairly close attention.
Watching von Karajan conduct on videos, where one sees close ups and large gestures, one might think at first that he is conducting for the amusement and edification of the viewing audience. But that does not seem to me to be the case at all. He is conducting very much just for the orchestra, and yet is being filmed along with the orchestra, close up, while doing it.
Watching von Karajan conduct on videos, where one sees close ups and large gestures, one might think at first that he is conducting for the amusement and edification of the viewing audience. But that does not seem to me to be the case at all. He is conducting very much just for the orchestra, and yet is being filmed along with the orchestra, close up, while doing it.
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