I might add my own experience when replacing a violinist colleague at the last moment for a choral concert with a well-known choral (and not-so-great orchestral) conductor.
At one really tricky point I found pencilled in my part a pair of eyeglasses in a circle with a diagonal line over it (i.e. "don't look!"). I did make the mistake of looking up and found the conductor furiously attempting to confuse everybody, and my colleagues all carefully watching their belly buttons with wise smirks on their faces. The warning was, actually, invaluable.
Dr.A.S.Weinstangel
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From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:58:06 -0400
>> have never seen (in 40 years) that symbol in any music I have
>>conducted
>
>Well you wouldn't, would you? since it A) has no place in the
>*score* of anything and B) is normally handwritten in the part, not
>printed by a publisher.
>
>I've never seen the eyeglasses in any published score I've ever
>looked at (thousands of them!) either, but have had occasion myself
>to pencil it into a part every third or fourth concert I play--and
>see numerous examples of it already entered into my part by
>previous users.
>
>Andrew Stiller
>Kallisti Music Press
>http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
>
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