Many years ago, the actor/singer/entertainer Danny Kaye used to conduct the New York Philharmonic’s benefit concerts, and those have been captured for posterity. My favorite is the one below, with a blistering trumpet solo from Philip Smith.
Now, Smith is one of the supreme trumpeters of our time, I should point out. The Phil was on a public TV broadcast the night before my grad school audition at Michigan State University in 2000, playing Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, and Smith’s hall-filling defiance in the cornet solos was something to behold. I’m still ticked that the cameras were on the strings.
I found the Kaye videos through this David Finlayson/Gilbert Kaplan kerfuffle, which can be summed by paraphrasing Morrissey: “Some conductors are better than others.”