What does a concert sound like to the orchestra?

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Gustavo Dudamel conducts the L.A. Philharmonic. — Gustavo Dudamel conducts the LA Philharmonic.

As you sit in the audience and hear the carefully balanced sound, have you wondered what the musicians themselves might hear?

Have you ever been at a concert by an orchestra and wondered why the musicians are arranged in a particular configuration?

As you sit in the audience and hear the carefully balanced sound, have you also wondered what the musicians themselves might hear? We sent The Frame contributor Gideon Brower to the Walt Disney Concert Hall to find out.