Sentence examples for a conducting position from inspiring English sources

He made his professional conducting debut in 1929 at Salzburg, and he was appointed to a conducting position in Ulm, Ger., later that year.

He behaved like a bourgeois son, trying to keep his family from breaking apart, supporting his sister and mother, always regretting that he was denied a conducting position in Hamburg, his hometown.

Mr. Peress began leading orchestras around the country, hoping to work his way one day to a big conducting position in New York.

Finding it difficult to obtain a serious classical conducting position in the U.S., he went abroad and made his European debut in 1969 leading the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

A permanent outsider, he never acquired a tenured teaching or conducting position and for 30 years paid his way as a music critic, and by "alimentary" labor, which made him more enemies and sapped his creative energies.

He will return to his conducting position next term.

His brother Fritz (1890 1951), a piano prodigy, held several important conducting positions after World War I, including music director of the Stuttgart Opera.

But he had an eye on the podium even then, and now he holds conducting positions in England (where he is music director of the Manchester Camerata and principal guest conductor of the City of London Sinfonia) and the United States (as an artistic director of the Gardner Chamber Orchestra, in Boston, and part of the artistic team at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra).

Mr. Bragado-Young was born in Cleveland; lived from age 2 to 15 in Spain, where his father held conducting positions; and spent his high school years at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

But there has been no talk of him standing down from his conducting positions in Oslo or Liverpool, and the reality is that this is all too likely to be swept under the carpet.

His past conducting positions have included principal conductor of the Arturo Michelangeli Youth Orchestra and Choir in Turin, Italy for the 2001 200202 season and four guest conducting appearances with the Stony Brook University Orchestra.