Sentence examples for a conductor given to from inspiring English sources

Even in his younger days, Bernard Haitink was never a conductor given to flamboyance.

A nod of sorts to Preston Sturges's 1948 movie "Unfaithfully Yours," in which Rex Harrison played a jealous conductor given to murderous fantasies on the podium, "Prelude" follows the mind of Mr. Thomas's character as he reflects on his appetites for fame and bisexual conquest.

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC As New Yorkers well know, if only from his tenure with their Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel can be an exasperating conductor, given to overcontrolling mannerisms.

Nikisch was just the kind of "modern" conductor, given to expressive infidelities to the score, that Higginson decried.

In "Interlude," he does something even more daring, and pulls it off with genius: Tonio's profession as a conductor gives Sirk the chance to film music itself.

Audiences may resist the charms of his Symphony in C or the profundities of "Threni" because of the excessive respect conductors give to the composer's own renditions.

Then get yourself a conductor, give them the baton and music sheet and get playing.

"O.K., try playing these C-sharps as if you were a conductor giving a beat.

"A conductor gives a concert, charges a million dollars and five cents, and barely moves a finger.

One ringer acts as a conductor, giving rudimentary guidance, but change ringing is very much a group effort.

Though the orchestra, which performs standing and without a conductor, gave a glowing account of Elgar's Introduction and Allegro (Op. 47), it mostly collaborated with Ms. Isbin on concertos and a chamber piece.