Scheduled to conduct for two weeks, Mr. Dohnanyi begged illness and left town after one.
"George was unfortunately not able to conduct for us next season," Mr. Steel said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
The president of the Los Angeles Council of Churches, the Rev. Leonard Jackson, told me last spring about the long line of funerals he's had to conduct for young black men and women, and boys and girls.
The Parlatos have adopted concepts promoted by Vision Long Island at public meetings that it is hired to conduct for municipalities and developers seeking public consensus for strategic growth plans.
But she also was in her element, a minisession of the kind of high-minded discussions about spirituality and public office that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, used to conduct for fun at Renaissance Weekends on Hilton Head.
But at the post-performance party he asked Peter Martins, the artistic director of New York City Ballet, "When am I going to conduct for you?" He was also thinking about opening a ballet school in Russia, and was in discussions with the mayor of St . Petersburgabout this.
