Spektor was born in Moscow, where her mother was a conservatory professor.
Latica Honda-Rosenberg, a violinist and conservatory professor with a growing solo career, searched for explanations for the orchestra's success, settling as usual on Mr. Abbado.
The mediocre jazz in Damien Chazelle's new film, "Whiplash," the story (set in the present day) of a young drummer (Miles Teller) under the brutal tutelage of a conservatory professor (J. K. Simmons), isn't itself a problem.
Right from the opening chords of the first prelude, "Danseuses de Delphes," Mr. Pollini shows a keen appreciation of the risk Debussy was taking when, as he told his conservatory professor, he decided the only harmonic rule he would follow would be that of his pleasure.
Taubman advocates have not always been welcomed in the tradition-bound and highly political conservatory world, where professors can feel threatened when their students seek help elsewhere.
At that time Bruckner lived in Vienna, teaching at the Vienna Conservatory as a professor of harmony and counterpoint, and at the Vienna University as a part-time lecturer from 1876.
He was organist at the Church of St. Eugène from 1872 to 1878, the church's choirmaster from 1878 to 1892, professor of harmony at the Conservatory from 1892 to 1896, and professor of piano from 1896 to 1901.
Khachaturian was trained at the Gnesin State Musical and Pedagogical Institute in Moscow and at the Moscow Conservatory and was a professor at both schools from 1951.
Referring to the new government-built apartment buildings, which are akin to the new conservatory, Aldo Benedetti, a professor of architecture in L'Aquila, elaborated: "They have no context, no idea of architecture, only the feel of army barracks, plunked somewhere".
