Keeps the beat and tells you to ramp up, ramp down (volume ) and when to stop or start. He points the stick at your instrument group, makes eye contact, to let you know.

I was only in band (we had band not orchestra) in 5-8th grade.

But I’ll tell you, it’s very intuitive. I never was like “what’s he mean?”.

It’s just like very obvious what the conductor* is indicating to you.

They wear VR contacts and are tapping little people on the “screen” to make the noises.

Keeping the music out of their eyes

Drying it off.

I just recently attended to the Opera “The magic flute/Die Zauberflöte” so reading the replies here gave me a lot of answeres to questions I was to lazy to ask for myself.

Anyway, have soneone else here seen that play?

Funny thing is you can actually conduct pretty well with just your hand.

Also a good conductor is usually an astoundingly good player of multiple instruments themselves.

It’s kind of like how football (soccer) team managers are retired players that can still play better than the entire stadium wearing loafers and a suit.

This is rage bait