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Such is the price of a fast-paced international career. Salonen already knows the dangers firsthand: while conducting a concert of new music a few years ago with his other orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony, he temporarily blacked out, exhausted, and had to start over. He hopes to avoid being a "jet-lag conductor" by settling professionally in Los Angeles. Next season will be his last in Stockholm. "Being music director of one orchestra is enough," he says. But an added attraction in California is the enterprising Music Center Opera company; he's talking about leading a Boris Godunov there...
...firsthand account of getting caught in the crossfire...
Duarte said Ring worked from a prepared set of questions, which included the question, "Do you have any firsthand knowledge of discrimination...
...clear the Tommy's experience, for better or worse, will never be quite the same. Though its reincarnation was as unheralded as its untimely death, the new Tommy's has been drawing crowds since its reopening, according to firsthand eyewitness accounts and new owner Richard Vernon...
Baird was not without defenders, particularly among parents with firsthand experience of a child-care nightmare. "It is ironic," wrote columnist Anna Quindlen, "that the first woman Attorney General-designate has been tripped up by that thing that trips us up day after day, makes us late for meetings, causes us to call in sick when we are well: the struggle for good surrogate care for our kids. Hard sometimes even if you are well to do. Horrid often if you are not." Anne Nelson, author of "Rock-a-Bye Nino: Confessions of a White Mother with a Brown Caregiver...