If your relative wishes to be conservator over your person, he or she must prove to the court that you're unable to properly provide for your basic needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter.
If your relative wishes to be conservator over your estate, he or she must prove that you're "substantially" unable to manage your financial affairs or "resist fraud or undue influence" by providing "clear and convincing evidence" (the "legal burden" or a "burden of persuasion"), such as unpaid bills or self-neglect, as proof to the court that you're unable to manage your affairs.
BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS: "SOUNDSCAPES" The best children's choirs — like the Vienna Boys Choirr — tend to be conservators of tradition, but Dianne Berkun's Grammy-winning ensemble (praised by no less than John Adams, whose 9/11 elegy, "On the Transmigration of Souls," they premièred with the New York Philharmonic) embraces the new.
Those who sincerely wish to be conservators of a great tradition seem to be nervous about the return of a strategy once central to that tradition: the freedom to infuse art music with recognizable references to the unpedigreed entertainment of a composer's time and place.
If none of them wishes to be the conservator, a professional conservator who charges fees for services can be hired.
Mr. Mustardo, 47, grew up in Rochester, N.Y., "where photography was in the air," he said, and he trained to be a conservator at the George Eastman House.
The person who provided those numbers is Stewart Pollens, who runs a business called the Violin Advisor and used to be a conservator of fine instruments at the Metropolitan Museum.
And it doesn't help that Jamie is now being paid $2500 a week from Britney's accounts to be the conservator of her affairs.
"You don't need to be skilled conservators to do this part — it's literally like remembering back to childhood birthday parties," said Ms. Esmay, who joined Dia three years ago as its first full-time conservator.
Saillard greets me in a room that looks like a typical restoration workshop — half-dead frocks lying on pristine tables waiting to be resuscitated; conservators speaking in hushed tones, as if the clothes could hear their diagnoses.
They have tried in their way to be good conservators: For more than a decade, beginning around the 25th anniversary of the festival in 1994, they held Woodstock "reunions" that drew musicians and a few hundred to a few thousand spectators, who camped on their 100-acre homestead for the three days in August near the anniversary dates of Aug. 15, 16 and 17.
