Sentence examples for orchestra maestro from inspiring English sources

Rattle feels he is conducting "Karajan's orchestra" – maestro at the helm for 35 years from 1954 to 1989, selling some 200 million discs and consolidating a streamlined, rhythmically propellant sound.

James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera and Boston Symphony Orchestra maestro, said on Friday that his recent brush with cancer brought a glimpse of mortality that will inevitably color his work.

It says much in cricket's favour that the most overtly theatrical of international umpires, Billy Bowden, a man who signals for drinks with an elaborate flourish of the jazz hands, like he's some kind of symphony orchestra maestro calling the woodwinds to present themselves for special applause, has failed to gain the cult appeal he apparently craves.

Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra Maestro Carlo Ponti leads the orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, plus Canteloube's "Chants D'Auvergne" with soprano Lisa Delan, and Dvořák's Rondo for Cello and Orchestra with cellist Helen Z. Altenbach.

Without looking at the credits, you'd swear that the former Electric Light Orchestra maestro and current Wilbury and producer-to-the-stars called in a bunch of favors for his solo debut.

The LSO's new season opened with a concert performance of Rigoletto conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, effectively a transfer, albeit with a few cast changes, from the Aix-en-Provence festival where both orchestra and maestro have spent part of the summer performing Verdi's masterpiece in an apparently provocative staging by Robert Carsen.

The Philadelphia Orchestra with Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Mendelssohn Club Chorus have expressed interest in performing the premier of the piece.

The orchestra's new maestro intends to spend his inaugural season fortifying the ensemble's foundation and bolstering his own understanding of his environment.

Guilet, a former concertmaster of Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, applied that maestro's exacting standards to chamber music, first in the Guilet String Quartet and then in the Beaux Arts.

Throughout the performance I was in awe, and felt as if I had been in the presence of absolute musical perfection: maestro, orchestra, soloists had transported us to a magical realm wherein beauty held total sway.

It seems almost heretical to say it, for a listener who learned his Mahler chiefly from Leonard Bernstein, but the real protagonist in all four Berlin recordings is this orchestra, not the maestro.