Sentence examples for conductor himself from inspiring English sources
Mr. Bornstein, a conductor himself, said the score was an early version of the symphony, published by the Viennese music publisher Josef Weinberger, probably in the 1890's.
Under Bernstein, who was the Philharmonic's most successful postwar music director, the players were famously obstreperous; the conductor himself, schmoozing and chain-smoking, broke all the rules of rehearsal.
His Bruckner was, like the conductor himself, craggy and uncompromising, worlds away from the more moulded approach of his great contemporary Wilhelm Furtwängler, or the effulgence of Karajan's performances.
The orchestra said on Thursday that next season, his last, would open with Mr. Schwarz conducting a concert featuring his son Julian playing the world premiere of a cello concerto by Samuel Jones and a work by the conductor himself, "The Human Spirit".
My left-hand neighbour, who is no less of a musical scholar, declares, 'I should have thought it was a clarinet.' In the interval we ask the conductor himself, and we are told that it was a bassoon that gave us such heart-searchings".
Into this caldron has stepped the great conductor Ivan Fischer, himself a Hungarian Jew.
At the age of twenty-four, Irafterderick, after showing promise as a pianist, composer, and conductor, flung himself from a window in a state of delirium.
If any conductor lends himself to scientific measurement, it would be Lorin Maazel, the frighteningly competent music director of the New York Philharmonic.
"Give them the profile, lots of profile," the conductor commands himself as he launches into the Liebestod from "Tristan und Isolde".
Nor did it point out that, at that first performance, Concerto for Group … was only one item on the programme, which also included the Sixth Symphony by the evening's conductor, Malcolm Arnold, himself a master of crossover.
Wooed by Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels, the man thought by many to be the world's greatest conductor allowed himself to be lionized by the Nazis and lived a privileged existence.
