Wisely, City Opera also signed Paul Gemignani, the conductor most closely associated with Mr. Sondheim's work.
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The orchestra will be under the direction of Paul Gemignani, the musical theater conductor most closely associated with Mr. Sondheim's work.
In 1840 he introduced the concept of electrostatic induction, a method of charging a conductor by closely juxtaposing another charged object to attract all charges of one sign and then grounding the conductor to bleed off the other group of charges, leaving a net charge behind.
Hans Knappertsbusch was the conductor most closely associated with Parsifal at Bayreuth in the post-war years, and the performances under his baton in 1951 marked the re-opening of the Bayreuth Festival after World War II.
The decision of the Atlanta Symphony's board to appoint Donald Runnicles as principal guest conductor, to work closely with Mr. Spano, was probably a move to reassure subscribers.
At a rehearsal, he watched both the conductor and singers closely, constantly varying his electronic rhythm in response to the conductor's baton with a rubato that even Puccini, a master of the slow and fast, might envy.
Dozens of recordings of works by Dmitri Shostakovich, above right, part of an archive of thousands of artifacts and materials stored in an apartment in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, may end up on the street, according to the son of Roman Matsov, a conductor who worked closely with Shostakovich.
No conductor was more closely identified with this repertory than Boult and, in fact, it brought out a liveliness in his temperament not often apparent elsewhere.
