Alfred Wallenstein, the conductor, sensitive accompanist that he is, picked up the idea and led the orchestra here with a sense of brooding, poetic mystery.

The unusual aspect of the orchestra was that, believing that in the ideal Marxist state all people are equal, its members felt that there was no need to be led by the dictatorial baton of a conductor ; instead they were led by a committee.

Choirs are often led by a conductor or choirmaster.

In 1887 Bruckner sent the work to Hermann Levi, the conductor who had led his Seventh to great success.

At the conservatoire, Jules was a diligent student ; he graduated and became a successful violin teacher and conductor, and led his younger brother's orchestra for several years.

The music was performed by the Vitaphone Orchestra, led by conductor David Mendoza.

" Toscanini, who had guest-conducted for several seasons, became the sole conductor and in 1930 led the group on a European tour that brought immediate international fame to the Orchestra.

The Morgan State University Choir was led for more than three decades by the late Dr. Nathan Carter, celebrated conductor, composer, and arranger, is one of the nation ’ s most prestigious university choral ensembles.

Decca released the stereo recordings of Ernest Ansermet conducting L ' Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, including, in 1959, the first stereo LP album of the complete Nutcracker, as well as Ansermet's only stereo version of Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat, which the conductor had led at its first performance in 1919.

He composed little during this time, and what he did write he couldn't get performed ; the Rosé Quartet ( led by Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Arnold Rosé ) would not even look at his D minor Quartet after it was picked apart in a column, and the premiere of Penthesilea was met by the Vienna Philharmonic, when they tried it out under their celebrated conservative conductor Hans Richter, with nothing but derision for " the man who had dared to criticize " Meister Brahms ," as Richter himself caustically put it.

Its first concerts were led by conductor composer Henry Hadley, who led the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1909 to 1911.

Besides leading efforts to create a performing arts center for the city that would serve as the Philharmonic's new home, and would eventually lead to the Los Angeles Music Center, she and others wanted a more prominent conductor to lead the orchestra ; after Wallenstein's departure, Chandler led efforts to hire then Concertgebouw Orchestra principal conductor, Eduard van Beinum as the LAPO music director.

The orchestra was founded by the Pittsburgh Arts Society with conductor Frederic Archer in 1895, who brought with him a number of musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and led the PSO in its first concert the following year.

Gatti-Casazza brought with him Arturo Toscanini, the fiery and brilliant conductor who had led La Scala during Gatti's years there as manager.

The Viennese composer Gustav Mahler also was a Met conductor during Gatti-Casazza's first two seasons and in later years conductors Tullio Serafin and Artur Bodanzky led the company in the Italian and German repertories respectively.

It was commissioned by the Great Woods Festival for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's opening concert led by American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas at Great Woods in Mansfield, Massachusetts on June 13, 1986.

These bands are led by a conductor and a drum major.

A conductor and one to four drum majors and several bandmasters led the military bands of the Soviet Union into a new decade of progress for Soviet military music.

Craft is an award-winning conductor who has led most of the major orchestras in the United States: ( New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Minneapolis ), as well as international engagements in Canada, Europe, Russia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, South America, Australia, and New Zealand.

István Kertész ( August 28, 1929April 16, 1973 ) was an internationally acclaimed Jewish Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor who, throughout his brief but distinguished career led many of the world's great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco and Minnesota Orchestras in the United States, as well as the London Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and L ' Orchestre de le Suisse Romande.

( The conductor of those performances, Julius Rudel, led a 1992 complete recording of the score with the Orchestra of St. Luke's: Music Masters 01612-67100.

In 1989 the conductor Helmuth Rilling recorded the original Requiem for Rossini in its world premiere.

The conductor at the premiere was Hans von Bülow.

The premiere of the entire work was given in the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth on 26 July 1882 under the baton of the German-born Jewish conductor Hermann Levi.

Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, later known as a conductor, was a member of the orchestra at the premiere, and wrote, " the work which nowadays seems to us so lucid aroused not only the protestations of the public, but also those of the musicians of the orchestra.

At the same time, many of the most illustrious conductors, singers and opera-house managers in Europe were vying for an opportunity to play a part in Otellos premiere, despite the fact that Faccio and La Scala, Milan, had already been selected as the conductor and the venue for the first performance.

He was conductor of the Ballets suédois's premiere of Relâche ( 1924 ), a film and music presentation by Francis Picabia and Erik Satie, with the film segment, Entr ' acte, directed by René Clair.

* Millennium Fantasy, for Piano and Orchestra ( 2000 ; commissioned for Pianist Jeffrey Biegel, project featuring 27 orchestras in the USA created by Jeffrey Biegel ; first largest consortium of orchestras ); premiere with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos conductor ; recorded for Naxos with the Florida State University Orchestra, Alexander Jimenez conductor

* Shadows, for Piano and Orchestra ( 2011 ; commissioned for pianist Jeffrey Biegel, project coordinator and piano soloist, 8 orchestras in the USA, Canada and England ; premiere with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor ; October 28 / 29, 2011 )

Although Scherchen did not premiere that particular work, he did give performances of later pieces by Xenakis, and the relationship between the conductor and the composer was of vital importance for the latter.

His last notable engagement before the outbreak of war was as conductor of the premiere of Stravinsky's opera The Nightingale at the Palais Garnier.

Gertrude and the other alumni ask the retiring teacher to serve as their conductor for the premiere performance of Mr. Holland's Opus (" The American Symphony ").

* 2008-Teatro Municipale R. Valli, Reggio Emilia-Antonio Florio ( conductor ), Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de ' Turchini-Arturo Cirillo ( Stage director ) Cast: Francesca Russo Ermolli, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Valentina Varriale, Maria Ercolano, Giuseppe De Vittorio World premiere video recording on DVD, Dynamic Cat. 33588

The premiere of the integral version of the work took place at the Erfurt ( Germany ) opera house ( 2006, Jean-Paul Penin, conductor ).

Critical reaction to the work was mixed: the canard that the work was not so much for violin as " against the violin " is attributed equally to conductor Hans von Bülow and to Joseph Hellmesberger, to whom Brahms entrusted the Vienna premiere, which was however rapturously received by the public.

Finally it reopened with the performance by the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra under conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler of Beethoven's 9th Symphony on 29 July 1951, followed by the first post-war premiere of Wagner's opera, Parsifal.

He was the conductor of the first Moscow performance of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony ( No. 6 ), on 4 / 16 December 1893, seven weeks after its premiere under the composer's baton and six weeks after his death.

Between 1922 and 1950, the philanthropist Werner Reinhart and the conductor Hermann Scherchen played a leading role in shaping the musical life of Winterthur, with numerous premiere performances emphasizing contemporary music.

#[...] it is not his conclusion that is performed in productions of Turandot but only what the premiere conductor Arturo Toscanini included from it ... Puccini had worked for nine months on the following concluding duet and at his death had left behind a whole ream of sketches ... Alfano had to reconstruct ... according to his best assessment ... and with his imagination and magnifying glass " since Puccini's material " had not really been legible.

Alexander came from an extremely musical family: his mother Laelia was a classically trained pianist, and his father was a Schoenberg pupil and pioneering conductor of Schoenberg, Messiaen ( he conducted the UK premiere of the Turangalîla Symphony in 1953 ) and Monteverdi.

The French premiere of the opera itself came in 1927 at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 11 February 1927 with conductor Philippe Gaubert.

Even so, the conductor Nikolai Malko, who had taught Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory and conducted the premiere of his pupil's First Symphony, reckoned the opera a " tremendous success "; indeed it was given 16 performances with two alternating casts over six months.

The United States professional premiere was presented in 1994 by the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center and followed by performances at the National Holocaust Museum under the direction of Alan Nathan, conductor and Mary Gresock, stage director.