Pauses in the music are filled with a gentle hum of conversation, so that conductor Christoph Eschenbach keeps having to shush them like a patient schoolteacher.
Waiting for a train in Grand Central, a commuter over heard a conversation between a conductor and a police man: Policeman: He's really a nice fellow, that Hannigan.
By Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, September 14 , 1968P. 47 Waiting for a train in Grand Central, a commuter over heard a conversation between a conductor and a police man: Policeman: He's really a nice fellow, that Hannigan.
The developments on Monday raised new questions about the events leading up to the derailment, including a conversation an assistant conductor told investigators she heard between the Amtrak engineer and a regional rail train engineer minutes before the train sped up and went off the rails at a curve.
Like his book about running, the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's conversations with the conductor Seiji Ozawa, collected in Absolutely on Music (Harvill Secker), are not for the specialist.
Fifth Avenue bus conductor making conversation with a mother and her young daughter.
By Stanley Edgar Hyman The New Yorker, June 19 , 1943P. 13 Fifth Avenue bus conductor making conversation with a mother and her young daughter.
Early in Absolutely on Music, a book comprised of six conversations between the acclaimed conductor Seiji Ozawa and the novelist Haruki Murakami, Ozawa talks about a small, hidden room in Carnegie Hall.
Here, I tease out that idea, drawing conductors into conversation with imperial telegraphers, spiritualists, conjurors, and inventors.
And it is hardly surprising that conversations between two conductors acclaimed for their Wagner interpretations, however disparate, should turn to the "Ring".
"He said, 'I can't get him up, we need the police,' " Mr. Moran said, recalling his conversation with the train's conductor.
