edit: to clarify, I don’t agree with any of this, I just thought it was funny.
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The conductor as part of the rehearsal is always overlooked here. Music, especially ensemble music with 80+ muscians, can easily be interpreted in many ways. Even when the sheet music has guidance, there are always degrees to decide on. How fast to go here, what volume to play here, on and on, and generally every instrument has different requirements to make a piece fit together. Someone guiding that process, having an understanding or at least a point of view, is a big part of the job. The stick wagging is just the end point after all the other work is done, but it in itself is also useful for execution and consistency.
So is conductor similar to film director or project manager, in that it seems pretty unnecessary for a small thing (which is what most critics imagine) but once it becomes complex and there's a lot of people trying to do different things at once then you need someone to keep everyone on the same page?
Yeah a directors job is mainly to prepare everything and hire good people to execute the movie filming process. Saying ‘action’, ‘cut’, and ‘I need more “whatever” out of you’ are a pretty small part of the job.