"When I started out, the conductors would scream so that I would go to the bathroom and throw up, then return to work," said Mr. Silipigni, whose career has spanned four decades.
I started a fellowship for women conductors in 2002, the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship.
Back then, things were more formal: "When I first started, the conductor wore tails," said Lee Reilly, an 83-year-old retired dentist from Ho-Ho-Kus who attended the library show.
After they had been way a couple of hours, Ernst heard the conductor say, "My God, it must have been I who started the rumor.
I've already started planning that season in terms of conductors, general layout, when a tour can take place.
How did you get started as a conductor?
This season he started as principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, a post that gives him practice as a music director out of the international spotlight.
Over the past few weeks, Metro-North Railroad has started arming its conductors with hand-held devices that print tickets and store fare data and that ultimately will accept credit cards.
At one of his first concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), its first bassoon, Gwydion Brooke, equally known for his wonderful playing and his baiting of conductors, started to give Tod a bad time.
"About an hour went by before I finally heard a conductor whisper to another guy 'Uh, the train came apart.' " Mrs. Thorne said that "once our train started moving again, a conductor asked a man riding between cars to return to his seat.
