The eyes have it

摘要

Towards the end of a rehearsal clip with Andre Previn preparing a performance of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances with the Leicestershire Schools Orchestra in 1973, which you can view on YouTube, he makes a telling criticism. 'For the general public it often doesn't seem that the orchestral players ever really look at the conductor. But in, say, the LSO, they have learned the trick of seeming not to look, but they really do look. Now you seem to look but you don't!'