"Eyes! Eyes!"

Conductors use different methods to elicit the slower, faster, louder, or softer results they want from an orchestra.  One conductor, for instance, might say to the ensemble, "We're not together in bar 40.  Be sure to watch how I'm conducting there, so our precision is where it should be."  Another conductor might ask the orchestra to pencil in a pair of glasses at a particular place in the score as a reminder to look up.  Other conductors, however, might take the approach one director did when I was in high school.  When people weren't watching his conducting, he'd shout, "Eyes!  Eyes!"  I always thought our rehearsals would have made for some interesting outtakes on a CD.  You'd hear a dramatic crescendo, a spirited yet ragged entrance from a gaggle of instruments, and then, "Eyes!  Eyes!"  "Eyes!  Eyes!" would have been a good title for the CD, actually.