Very quickly Gergiev became one of the most sought after conductors in the world, so that his professional life seemed to become a tireless whirl of jet-setting engagements.
Discussing trends in transport, the document supporting the plan heralded a future in which buses might glide around the capital with no drivers – there are currently 22,500 of them – a generation after conductors largely disappeared across most of London's bus routes.
Andris Nelsons was hardly known internationally when he arrived in Birmingham in 2008; he leaves now as one of the most exciting and sought-after conductors working today.
John Lanchbery, one of the dance world's most successful and sought-after conductors and arrangers of ballet scores, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
This is also the only time Valery Gergiev, one of the world's most sought-after conductors and the theater's artistic director, brings glamour to this gritty city with a pretty face, where czarist palaces share streets with Dickensian squalor, a city of giant potholes and columned facades, of high culture and low wages.
Now one of the world's most sought-after conductors, and regularly compared to the legendary Yevgeny Mravinksy, Gergiev has positions in Rotterdam and at the Metropolitan opera in New York, where the post of principal guest conductor was created specifically for him.
(Tommasini) ★ Oliver Knussen: Composer Portraits Series (Thursday) The accomplished and inventive British composer Oliver Knussen is also a sought-after conductor.
After all, the man is not only a renowned tenor and sought-after conductor, he is also the artistic director of two major opera companies.
The one part of his previous life that he does remember - when he was a sought-after conductor and classical music producer for Radio 3 - is Deborah.
That's his fault … He has gone from being a much celebrated and sought-after conductor both here and abroad to being someone who is unemployable".
For the better part of four decades, as composer (of operas, ballets, orchestral music, band music, chamber music, choral music, and film scores), teacher, writer of books and articles on music, organizer of musical events, and a much sought after conductor, Copland expressed "the deepest reactions of the American consciousness to the American scene".
