He is perhaps a more serious and substantial conductor than Mr. Mehta, but he was also wise enough not to flinch from what Schoenberg presented him.
The stranded conductor is also more flexible than a solid conductor of similar size, aiding manufacture.
My rather extreme capacity for self-criticism, for a start … You have always kept parallel lives as conductor and composer, and managed a substantial corpus of published work – you're currently working on Opus 35.
A substantial imbalance between peak load on the upstream and downstream conductors was observed for both types of wind forcing and was particularly severe for the downdraft outflow simulations.
The New York Philharmonic offered a brilliant example at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday night, when the impressive young conductor Ludovic Morlot led the United States premiere of "Gondwana," a substantial 1980 work by the French composer Tristan Murail.
And yet here he is again with a substantial, beautiful role in "Youth," playing, with unerring truthfulness, a retired composer-conductor sifting through regrets (he's had a few) as he faces the final curtain.
A substantial piece in three movements, totalling 50 minutes, it was presented here by the Bruckner Orchester Linz under its chief conductor, Dennis Russell Davies.
The Center for Contemporary Opera, which recently won a substantial grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, clearly put substantial resources into the presentation: not least a capable director, Sam Helfrich, and conductor, Sara Jobin.
We made a substantial bid.
January 26 2015 Valery Gergiev, the paramount Russian conductor of our time, leads the (arguably overdue) Met première of Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" as a prelude to a work with a substantial Met provenance, Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle".
