Word: conductor
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...contemporary of Mahler's saw him as "a great terrorist genius who, striving for unattainable goals, meets the fate of Icarus." That's a shrewd appraisal of the passionate composer and conductor during his embattled last years as head of the Vienna Opera--when his visionary compositions and inspired performances were commonly met by savage criticism, often fueled by anti-Semitism. In this penultimate volume of his monumental biography, La Grange locates Mahler at the heart of turn-of-the-century Vienna's flourishing cultural milieu, which, together with Mahler's relationships with many of its major figures, he vividly...
...University will today confer honorary degrees on 11--including a celebrated conductor, a key benefactor, a Holocaust-survivor-turned- pioneering entrepreneur and three Nobel laureates...
...choice the conductor made would take the train further and further from other directions he might have chosen, but the conductor could never look back...
...ball, and look over here at me, and I'll tell you what to do. I'll put you in a position where you can win by one or two points, because it's my strategy in the end." Wooden gave you the freedom to perform. He was the conductor of a free-form symphony. He always said, "Don't look over here at the sideline. I've already done my job. When the game starts, it's about you guys having fun playing a game and doing your best...
...conductor's baton comes to a dramatic halt. The orchestra's final note rings in the air. There is a split second of awed silence, then thunderous applause as the audience expresses its appreciation...