In 2004 the Hong Kong Philharmonic acquired a world-class conductor, Edo de Waart.
To begin with beginnings: the founding music director of Chicago's orchestra was Theodore Thomas, a world-class conductor.
But now, the culture ministry has hired a world-class conductor and it is rising from the ashes nearly three years after it was shut down.
The acquisition merely gave the Celtics a world-class conductor for their Big Three symphony of Allen, Pierce and Kevin Garnett, as their coach, Doc Rivers, was quick to acknowledge.
In March, it was brought back to life after being fully disbanded under the former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, thanks to Rahbari, a world-class conductor who has led more than 120 European orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and London Philharmonic.
After all, how often does one hear a world-class conductor first leading a high-energy Beethoven program, as he did on Monday, and then, the next night, playing the violin in a rigorous all-Brahms recital?
It was revived in March under the new moderate administration of Hassan Rouhani which hired a world-class conductor to bring it back to life after a three-year hiatus.
MATTHIAS GOERNE AND CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH Eschenbach, who was an esteemed pianist long before he became a world-class conductor, accompanies the intensely focussed baritone, who brings his pitch-black voice to complete song cycles by Schumann (the Heine "Liederkreis") and Brahms (including the "Four Serious Songs").
I have just returned from the Met where I've been working with three assistants, a prompter, a French coach, two repititeurs, a world-class conductor, prop people on tap, stage hands to move things around, four aerialists, four actors, four stunning singers and at times 80 chorus members and the chorus master.
Finland is known for its famous classical composers and contemporary world class conductors.
