Sentence examples for conductor at work from inspiring English sources

They were watching the conductor at work.

To watch the first minute of the 1974 final is to see a master conductor at work as Cruyff points and shouts and directs a move that ends with him being fouled to earn the Dutch a penalty before West Germany had even touched the ball.

By this point Solti was, in the words of his biographer Paul Robinson, "after Karajan, the most celebrated conductor at work".

Mehta was a fellow student, and the friends joined the bass section of the Musikfreunde chorus so they could observe its conductors at work; among those under whom they sang were Herbert von Karajan, Hermann Scherchen, George Szell and Bruno Walter.

Teodor Currentzis is a young Greek conductor whose work at the opera house in the far-flung city of Perm has become so celebrated that he has been made a Russian citizen.

(Kozinn) ORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK (Monday) This venerable choir, supported by the Westchester Philharmonic, presents its first "Messiah" under its new director, Kent Tritle, a conductor whose work at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola offers reason to suppose that good things are in the offing.

For 18 years, starting in 1964, he was also an assistant conductor at the Salzburg Festival, working with longtime friends and colleagues Herbert von Karajan and Karl Böhm.

Of those seven sons, only two are left (my father, Carmine, died in 1991): my 98-year-old uncle Mikey, who is my godfather, and my uncle Anton, a noted composer and conductor still working at the age of 95.

He was instead put to work as a staff conductor at the Kirov.

— Keith Fitzhugh, America's most celebrated train conductor, rose for work at 4 30 on Friday morning.

"For any conductor, this work is Mount Everest," says conductor Vladimir Jurowski, scaling this peak for the first time.