They interviewed the conductor of the streetcar Morse said he had taken, but the man did not remember Morse as a passenger.

In modern times, the musicians are usually directed by a conductor, although early orchestras did not have one, giving this role instead to the concertmaster or the harpsichordist playing the continuo.

He was unable to get work as a conductor, and the Opéra did not want to produce Rienzi.

What Knappertsbusch did not realise was that Wieland had made the length of the string sufficient so that the conductor could see the dove, but the audience could not.

After the severe criticisms by Ricordi and the conductor Arturo Toscanini, he was forced to write a second, strictly censored version that followed Puccini's sketches more closely, to the point where he did not set some of Adami's text to music because Puccini had not indicated how he wanted it to sound.

" Boris Godunov did not return to the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre until 9 November 1904, when the Rimsky-Korsakov edition was presented under conductor Feliks Blumenfeld with bass Fyodor Shalyapin in the title role.

Additionally, although originally intended to replace the oboe and the bassoon, the practical ranges of the corresponding sarrusophones, the soprano and bass, as per famed band conductor Edwin Franko Goldman and organologist Anthony Baines, did not lend themselves to proper playing of oboe and bassoon parts, especially in orchestra transcriptions for wind band.

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.

Arthur Fiedler was the conductor who did the most to increase the fame of the Boston Pops, over his tenure from 1930 to 1979.

The program ran for at least three years, and did not feature any of the revisionist commentary about the conductor one finds so often today in magazines such as American Record Guide.

Following the resignation of Frederic Cowen, the society did not appoint another principal conductor until 1942.

The orchestra did not at this time have a principal conductor, but worked closely with a succession of guest conductors including Raymond Leppard, Colin Davis and Daniel Barenboim.

As a conductor Elgar did not prove to be a big enough box-office draw, and after one season he was replaced by the charismatic Hungarian maestro Nikisch.

After this the orchestra did not appoint a chief conductor for nearly 20 years.

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.

However, this film did give Herrmann the opportunity for an on-screen appearance: he is the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in the Albert Hall scene.

* March 27 – The première of Sergei Rachmaninoff's First Symphony is a complete disaster, leaving many wondering whether Alexander Glazunov, the conductor for the event, was drunk or just disliked the music so much that he did not care about a good performance.

In addition to the chief conductor, the orchestra had conductor positions titled " eerste dirigent " (" first conductor "), who assisted the chief conductor with programming, and " tweede dirigent " (" second conductor "), who did " what he was told.

In the middle of the tour Monteux was briefly summoned back to Paris by the Concerts Colonne, which had the contractual right to recall him as its assistant conductor, leaving his deputy, Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, in musical charge of the Ballets Russes.

The principle of increasing the number of windings a conductor takes around the ferrite core is well understood, each turn having the effect of multiplying the current under measurement.

Adams worked in the electronic music studio at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, having built his own analogue synthesizer, and as conductor of the New Music Ensemble, he had a small but dedicated pool of young and talented musicians occasionally at his disposal.

* Ground loop ( electricity ), an unwanted electrical current that flows in a conductor connecting two points inadvertently having different potentials

*, " Surface wave transmission system over a single conductor having E-fields terminating along the conductor ".

Physicists who study the electrical properties of matter at the microscopic level use a closely related and more general vector equation, sometimes also referred to as Ohm's law, having variables that are closely related to the V, I, and R scalar variables of Ohm's law, but which are each functions of position within the conductor.

Since the E field is uniform in the direction of wire length, for a conductor having uniformly consistent resistivity ρ, the current density J will also be uniform in any cross-sectional area and oriented in the direction of wire length, so we may write:

An anonymous critic writing in Opera magazine in 1954, having attended a performance of Hindemith's Neues vom Tage, noted that " Mr Hindemith is no virtuoso conductor, but he does possess an extraordinary knack of making performers understand how his own music is supposed to go ".

" The trio's longtime conductor, Vic Schoen, said of Les, " You could always count on him to come up with something no one else had thought of ," while Maxene Andrews once remembered, " It was wonderful having him perform with us.

Despite not having taken conducting classes, he was already appearing as conductor in his teens, making his debut in 1930 with the Bucharest Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert which included The Rite of Spring and his own composition Prelude and Fugue ( Toccata ).

In 1934, Godfrey retired as principal conductor, having conducted over 2, 000 symphony concerts.

In addition to its roster of principal conductors, other conductors affiliated with the orchestra have included George Hurst, who served as de facto principal conductor from 1969 to 1972, between the tenures of Silvestri and Paavo Berglund, without having been formally appointed to the post.

He was well known to the players, having been the orchestra's principal guest conductor in the 1990s.

" Throughout the orchestra's 2003 centennial celebrations Engberg was touted as an example of the orchestra association's progressiveness in having had a female conductor, although research reveals that she never actually worked for the organization.

In August 2007 Fabio Luisi began his tenure as chief conductor, having been named to the post in January 2004.

In 2002 Britart was heavily criticised by the leading conductor Sir Simon Rattle, who was, in return, accused of having a poor understanding of conceptual and visual art.

The language problems also occurred during the contest introductions, as Charell introduced Norwegian conductor Sigurd Jansen as "... Johannes ... Skorgan ...", having been forced to make up a name on the spot after forgetting the conductor's name.

For example, if one takes a train to Bern via Biel, having departed from Geneva ; which is a longer trip than taking the InterCity via Lausanne, the conductor can fine the passenger a supplementary fare.

When operating from DC, the rectifier was essentially a conductor, having no effect ; it was included to allow operation from AC or DC without modification.

Double access flex, also known as back bared flex, are flexible circuits having a single conductor layer but which is processed so as to allow access to selected features of the conductor pattern from both sides.

The manufacturing process involves a special flex circuit multi-step etching method which yields a flexible circuit having finished copper conductors wherein the thickness of the conductor differs at various places along their length.

Double-sided flex circuits are flex circuits having two conductor layers.

In 1867 at the American Institute Fair in New York, Alfred Ely Beach demonstrated a 32. 6 m long, 1. 8 m diameter pipe that was capable of moving 12 passengers plus a conductor.

As these events transpired, other white passengers cursed Tubman and shouted for the conductor to kick her off the train.

The inconvenience to passengers of interior lights being momentarily extinguished as the train passes over conductor rail gaps was partially eliminated in this stock by feeding half the car lights from the motor car at one end of the unit, and half from the other.

Payne then drags Annie onto a subway train, forcing its conductor to set the train in motion while forcing the other passengers to leave by threatening to shoot them.

On 11 November 2000, 161 passengers and one conductor boarded the funicular train for an early morning trip to the slopes.

Eventually, the conductor was able to unlock the doors, allowing them to be manually forced open by the remaining conscious passengers who spilled out into the tunnel and fled upwards and away from the fire.

All the passengers ascending on foot, as well as the train conductor, were asphyxiated by the smoke and then burned by the raging fire.

Image: 165-WW-269B-11-trolley-l. jpg | A street car conductor in Seattle in 1918 refusing to allow passengers aboard who are not wearing masks

The conductor also assisted with shunting when necessary, changing the trolley pole and attended to passengers ' needs.

* the passengers get seated and the conductor comes to them

Because of the two levels being separate on most cars, there is a physical limitation on the conductor, as it is difficult for him to verify, collect payment and sell tickets to such a large concentration of passengers in one car on each level, owing to the sometimes short distance between stops.

This enables the conductor ( s ) walking along on the lower level to easily reach up and punch or validate tickets of the passengers seated on the mezzanine level.

On May 4, 1884, a train conductor Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ordered Wells to give up her seat and move to the smoking car, which was already crowded with other passengers.

The conductor said Delahanty was brandishing a straight razor and threatening passengers.

About half the trains on the Avocet Line from to call at Lympstone Commando – it is a request stop, this means that passengers alighting here must tell the conductor that they wish to do so, and those waiting to join must signal clearly to the driver as the train approaches.

If present, the conductor manages passengers and takes care of fare collection.

With unsupervised " open boarding " through three doors and the requirement for pre-purchase of tickets, levels of fare-dodging on the new vehicles were found to be at least three times higher than on conventional buses where entry of passengers is monitored by the driver or conductor.

Four passengers, the engineer, fireman and conductor were killed.

The conductor warns the passengers in Drawing Room ' A ' that a lunatic is on board the train.

A crew consists of three individuals: the engineer ( charged with operation of the locomotive ), the fireman ( charged with operation of the boiler to provide the steam for the locomotive ), and the conductor ( charged with management and safe operation of the train and its passengers ).

About half the trains on the Avocet Line from to call at Exton on request – this means that passengers alighting here must tell the conductor that they wish to do so, and those waiting to join must signal clearly to the driver as the train approaches.

There are no station employees to examine tickets ; passengers must hand their tickets to a conductor.

The station is found in Arriva Trains Wales ' timetable number 1, and since 14th May 2012, the station is a request stop, meaning passengers must ask the conductor to alert the driver if they wish to alight.