Word: conductor
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...guests or embarrass them." The two anchors forged a complementary partnership -- MacNeil with his clipped, analytical style, Lehrer with his folksy Texas drawl -- but there are important differences. Says longtime NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Lehrer is like a "Marine drill sergeant"; MacNeil is like a "symphony conductor...
...been it composer-in-residence at Yale University the Tanglewood Music Festival, the New England Conservation and several other universities and festivals. His music has been performed by conductor Seiji and cellist...
...Haydn transformed Yoo completely into conductor, but without a podium or baton. Lin, Yoo and most of the players stood on equal ground as Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies accompanied on harpsichord...
Levin is an internationally known pianist who has played with Christopher Hogwood, Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa and other famous musicians. A composer as well, he is famous for his "completions" of fragmented Mozart works...
began with an indication of the circular evolution of musical audiences. In the halls of the eighteenth century, which catered to aristocrats whose particular interest was not necessarily the music, there was no sense in a conductor or concert master waiting for silence: the orchestra simply played--preferably loudly at first--to quiet the crowd. It is partly for this reason that most symphonies from the classical begin with a forte. When Haitink took the stage, the noise from the crowd of the elderly and well-to-do did not diminish. Thus, he dove straight into the cataclysmic opening bars...