Watch Leonard Bernstein conduct an orchestra using only his EYEBROWS

15 February 2019, 11:46

Conductors are influential people, but usually they have to at least use their hands a little bit. Not Leonard Bernstein, apparently…

The great Leonard Bernstein was such a showman of a conductor that he didn’t even need to use his baton to coax a great performance from the Vienna Philharmonic in this concert.

Watch Bernstein use only his eyebrows (and the odd bit of smiling and grimacing) to give the orchestra all the information they need about tempo and dynamics for Haydn’s Symphony No. 88. Amazing stuff: