For over 20 years, this perpetually rumpled Arkansas native, a maverick in the New York music scene, earned the loyalty of orchestra players, especially students and fledgling professionals, who were drawn to his artistic vision, infectious love of offbeat repertory and deep musical understanding, despite the fact that Mr. Nygaard paid them modestly, at best.
Thomas was a fledgling professional tennis player in the 1980s.
A steady flow of early-music concerts will pour forth from the Juilliard School's historical performance program, which has also spawned a fledgling professional orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated.
He helped Jack Kramer, the American tennis star and entrepreneur, promote the fledgling professional tour, which eventually forced the Grand Slam tournaments to open their draws to both amateurs and pros.
Manchester United bypassed America's fledgling professional soccer league to make a deal with the Yankees because it hopes that the association will make it a recognizable brand in what remains the world's foremost consumer market.
Fledgling professional musicians should have the courage to play new works by composers they believe in and resist the entreaties of concert presenters and agents who try to talk them out of it.
Starting in the late 1960's, John Newcombe, Tony Roche and six other players known as the Handsome Eight were ordered to wear bright-colored shirts to promote World Championship Tennis, the fledgling professional tour.
In preparing this work, he drew on his studies of ancient Chinese folk music, filtering those styles through techniques learned by attending almost every opera the Met produced during his years in New York, starting with his days as a graduate student and a fledgling professional musician.
She feels she can become one of the world's best, but insists she is staying grounded as she continues her education as a fledgling professional.
The organisation--a fledgling professional society by international comparisons--is made up of 17 physical societies in Central and South America and represents approximately 15,000 physicists.
If true, the commission of war crimes by soldiers from the new American-trained army would be a major setback for the United States, which has declared the fledgling 10,000 soldier force professional and capable of eventually defending Afghanistan on its own.
