Working with the State Department, he conducted concerts of American music in Europe and the Far East.
On the radio he conducted concerts and shows for CBC before moving into TV and then on to England.
Last summer he conducted concerts at the Tanglewood Festival, the orchestra's summer home in the Berkshires, and in January made his debut at Boston's Symphony Hall.
He has conducted concerts featuring world-renown soloists such as Plácido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Sir James Galway, Joshua Bell, Denyce Graves, Nadja Salerno-Sonenberg, Jean Pierre Rampal, Christopher Parkening, Edgar Meyer, Roberta Peters, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, and Ricky Skaggs.
The three-year deal calls for Mr. Perlman to conduct concerts for three weeks each season.
There are also several DVD's of Mr. Kleiber conducting concerts and operas.
Over the ensuing decades, as Bernstein's fame grew, he continued to conduct concerts with the student orchestra every summer.
He made his debut in Britain in 1965, with the BSO, conducting concerts as part of the Sibelius centenary festivities.
"I made an orchestra of buttons, of paperclips, and rubber erasers - thousands of things - and I would conduct concerts".
During World War II, Mr. Katz was an entertainment director with the Seventh Army in Germany, conducting concerts and writing arrangements for musical revues.
In exchange, she made him promise to work regular hours six days a week at her school, instruct "the most talented pupils only" and conduct concerts.
