Sentence examples for Leading conductor from inspiring English sources

Author spoke to Ernst August Schneider, one of the opera's artistic directors, and to Dr. Karl Bohm, the opera's director & leading conductor for the past year.

By that time the BBC had taken financial control of the event, and Newman had handed over to his leading conductor, Henry Wood.

But hearing his setting of Psalm 150, just once, launched the career of America's leading conductor of Jewish music.

She moved boldly, engaging Wilhelm Furtwngler, Germany's leading conductor, and Heinz Tietjen, general intendant of the Prussian State Theater.

Though a capable rather than a virtuoso player he won the praise of the leading conductor Hans Richter, for whom he played at Covent Garden.

Arturo Toscanini, widely regarded at the time as the world's leading conductor, conducted the BBC orchestra in 1935 and said that it was the finest he had ever directed.

Leading conductors refused to enter the Bastille, senior staff escaped it; the theatres were in turmoil.

He was appointed chorus master in 1945 and then, in 1951, debuted as the Met's lead conductor.

In 1871 Erkel announced his resignation as the lead conductor of the Philharmonic Society, but he stayed on for the next few years, gradually ceding the position to Hans Richter.

Michael Feinstein will become the new lead conductor of the Pasadena Pops in Pasadena, Calif., The Los Angeles Times reported, inheriting the mantle from the composer Marvin Hamlisch, who died earlier this month.

But most often his role has been in assisting the lead conductor in preparing the production; he has conducted relatively few performances himself.