Public-safety campaigners lament the loss of the avuncular bus conductor, surplus to requirements on modern vehicles.

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The English conductor Harry Bicket is well known for his skill at making modern-instrument orchestras like the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago sound like period-instrument ensembles.

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