Sentence examples for respected conductors from inspiring English sources

Sir Charles Mackerras, who has died aged 84 of cancer, was one of the most versatile, adventurous and generally admired and respected conductors of the past six decades.

China has produced other respected conductors, like Muhai Tang and Xian Zhang, but they are either working overseas or have struggled to lead at home, where politics often matters as much as artistic merit.

One of Britain's most respected conductors, Sir Edward Downes, and his wife, Joan, a choreographer and TV producer, have died at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, their family said today.

As a further sign of his self-confidence, in the introduction to the 1848 edition, dated 28 June, the author acknowledges "the kindness with which it has been received in all the principal towns of England… where it has been most favourably noticed by the respected conductors of the public Press, and by the Nobility and Gentry.

Mr. Abbado may be the most universally respected conductor around now.

In July 2009 the respected conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife, Joan, ended their lives together at the clinic.

Audiences may resist the charms of his Symphony in C or the profundities of "Threni" because of the excessive respect conductors give to the composer's own renditions.

At 74, Mr. Abbado may be the most widely respected living conductor.

But in this respect, conductor Jonathan Peter Kenny's adoption of fast speeds, particularly in the arias of the first half, made for uneven patches.

Claudio Abbado was one of the best-respected conductors of the second half of the 20th century; indeed, when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2000, his career seemed to have come to its term with the century itself, but with customary determination, half-hidden by his modest manner, Abbado pulled himself back from the brink of death to produce another decade of visionary music-making.

Wigglesworth is hugely respected as a conductor.