In 1934 he was appointed professor of Near Eastern languages and culture at the University of Berlin, at the same time accepting the directorship of the institute for studies in the same fields at Istanbul University.
On his departure from Salzburg in 2001, Mortier applied his energies to a new festival in the Ruhr, before accepting the directorship of the Paris Opéra, where he mounted Saint François once again and the spectacular Sellars Tristan und Isolde, with Bill Viola's orientalist, New Age video projections.
In 1963 Ray accepted the directorship of the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, having previously consulted for the National Science Foundation (1960 62).
She led the company after Jooss's departure in 1969, until she accepted the directorship of the Wuppertal Opera Ballet in 1973.
Mr. Adams accepted the directorship at 38 after resigning from the Air Reduction Company, a business dealing in welding gases whose founders included his father and uncle.
Across the river, meanwhile, Neil MacGregor, the National Gallery's director, to no one's surprise has just accepted the directorship of the British Museum.
Mr. Jansons had just accepted the directorship of the Bavarian Radio Symphony in Munich, and has since been chosen to lead Amsterdam's prestigious Concertgebouw Orchestra.
She added that her academic inclinations were a factor in her decision not to accept the directorship of the new Harvard center, though she has agreed to serve as chair of the advisory committee.
When the news came in May 2008 that Riccardo Muti, who had resisted entreaties from the New York Philharmonic to become its music director, had accepted the directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, many Philharmonic musicians went public with their bruised feelings.
Organized by Kevin Salatino (who was the museum's director until he recently accepted the directorship of the Huntington Library) and Diana Tuite, a curatorial fellow at the museum, it includes drawings, collages, photographs, altered photographs and paintings and includes a 25-minute featurette movie, "The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold".
