Many hours have been spent not just in concerts given by the six conductor-orchestra pairs taken as his subject, but in observing them in the rehearsals beforehand and quizzing members of the orchestra about their side of the experience.
He points to gold - a resilient conductor of electricity - which shows clearly in the connecting prongs of a laptop hard drive.
The stars are soprano Patrizia Ciofi as Violetta and tenor Vittorio Grigolo as Alfredo, with conductor Myung-Whun Chung.
Gunther Schuller is a musical Renaissance man -- composer, conductor, teacher, advocate and author -- whose interests range from Mozart to Mingus, from Sousa to Satchmo.
Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Met orchestra managed to make one of opera's most familiar scores sound fresh and exciting.
Officials say they want to attract a semi-conductor plant, a hope that has become the Holy Grail for aspiring cities across America.
Using patent analysis studying US semi-conductor firms, they examined the transfer of knowledge between pairs of firms: the firm from which the employee was poached and the poacher.
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Lin, Justin, and Marie examined the semi-conductor industry, where the initial reliance on vacuum tubes was replaced by bipolar technology, which in turn was replaced by complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS).
Levine, who turns 70 on June 23, has been the company's leading force for four decades as principal conductor (1973-76), music director (1976-86 and 2004 on) and artistic director (1986-04).
Notably, INTC recently closed its acquisition of Infineon Technologies (IFNNY), maker of the chips inside the iPhone 3GS. INTC remains one of the best-positioned and strongest companies in the high-growth-potential semi-conductor sector.
Mr. Jacobs is currently touring with conductor Michael Tilson-Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, playing the world-premiere performances of "Mass Transmission" by SFSO resident-composer Mason Bates, as well as the beguilingly rhythmic "Concerto for Organ With Percussion Orchestra" by Lou Harrison (1917-2003).
Born in Birmingham on 17 June 1924, the world-famous conductor began playing the violin at the age of five.
For kids of all ages, there is a custom-built train with an adult-size conductor's seat that snakes around the property.
The world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev, himself an Ossetian, gave a concert in the devastated South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali with his home orchestra, the Mariinsky of St Petersburg.
The concert will mark the conductor's much-anticipated return to the podium after suffering from a spinal cord injury that left the lower half of his body without feeling or movement.
According to Zander, the bond that exists between the conductor and his musicians -- which he describes in almost spiritual terms (the purpose of life, he says, is to surround yourself with "shining eyes") -- can be replicated in the workplace between managers and their staff.
But that alone does not rule out introduction of a fully-fledged guest conductor system elsewhere.
The conductor Robert Spano and the author-administrator Joseph Horowitz presided over a particularly vibrant period in the late nineties.
Despite his pre-eminence as a conductor, Toscanini was not infallible on musical matters.
He is particularly good with people at work, be it a banana packer, a tent-rigger or a conductor directing strings.
His abilities eventually led him to the conductor's job in Boston -- a role he's occupied for nearly 30 years.
There's no doubt the musicians could play each piece note-perfect without a conductor: each performance is the culmination of years of practice, hours of painstaking work to refine their art.
It all made me wish for the logical next step for New York: regular staged productions of these operas, in an appropriately sized theater with a pit, starring a period-instrument band, conductor and singers as fine as these.
Before Welser-Moest became a conductor, he worked as a trained violinist with some of the most respected orchestras around the world, including the philharmonic orchestras of Vienna and Berlin, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and the Orchestras of Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles and New York.
Super-conduction occurs when the conductor of electricity, whether big or small, has no resistance.
"I knew before that it would be so difficult for me as a composer because traditional musical instruments are never played in big performances, Cambodian musicians never read (musical) notes, they don't work with a conductor and especially related to the tune -- the pitch of traditional instruments -- it's not enough tune to perform with the rock band, " Him Sophy said.
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In 1957 he was appointed to his first full-time job, as assistant conductor of the BBC Scottish Orchestra (now the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra).
One conductor receiving close scrutiny in Boston is the thirty-three-year-old Latvian maestro Andris Nelsons, who is presently the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony, in England.
Watkins then played in the band his father conducted - the Spring Gardens Brass Band in Reading - of which his grandfather was also conductor and a founder member.
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