With the exception of the 1878-1879 season – when he was in Cincinnati and Adolph Neuendorff led the group – Thomas conducted every season for fourteen years, vastly improving the orchestra's financial health while creating a polished and virtuosic ensemble.

The orchestra's current chief conductor is Eliahu Inbal, since the 2009-2010 season.

Karabits held the title of orchestra's Principal Conductor-Designate for the 2008-2009 season, and became Principal Conductor with the 2009-2010 season.

Of the 21 programmes in the orchestra's first season, Boult conducted nine and Wood five.

In September 2008, the orchestra announced the conclusion of Schwarz's music directorship after the 2010 – 2011 season, at which time Schwarz is scheduled to become the orchestra's conductor laureate.

Luisi was scheduled to step down as chief conductor in 2012, as of the October 2009 announcement of Christian Thielemann as the orchestra's next chief conductor, effective with the 2012-2013 season.

At concerts promoted by the LSO the members played without fee, their remuneration coming at the end of each season in a division of the orchestra's profits.

In its early years, Richter was the LSO's most frequently-engaged conductor, with four or five concerts every season ; the orchestra's website and Morrison's 2004 book both count him as the orchestra's first chief conductor, though the 1911 Musical Times article indicates otherwise.

His chosen repertoire was good for the box office: cycles of Beethoven symphonies and concertos ( the latter featuring Wilhelm Kempff in one season and Claudio Arrau in another ) helped restore the orchestra's finances as well as its musical standards.

The orchestra's workload in these years was second only to the other self-governing London orchestra, the LPO: the LPO played 248 concerts in the 1949 – 50 season ; the LSO 103 ; the BBC SO 55 ; the Philharmonia and RPO 32 each.

In November 2006, the orchestra announced the appointment of Esa-Pekka Salonen as the orchestra's fifth Principal Conductor, effective with the 2008-2009 season.

In June 2007, the orchestra announced the appointment of American conductor Leonard Slatkin as the orchestra's principal guest conductor, as of the 2008-2009 season.

In March 2009, DNO announced the appointment of Marc Albrecht as the orchestra's next chief conductor, with the 2011-2012 season, for an initial contract of 4 years.

Edo de Waart has been the orchestra's Artistic Director and Chief Conductor since the 2004 / 2005 season, and he is scheduled to conclude his HKPO tenure after the 2011-2012 season.

With European orchestras, the titles of " principal conductor " or " chief conductor " are more common, which designate the conductor who directs the majority of a given orchestra's concerts in a season.

In September 1995, she was again the featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, this time under Kurt Masur's direction, in a gala concert telecast live to the nation by PBS making the opening of the orchestra's 153rd season.

The orchestra's ensemble size increased steadily, reaching 44 musicians in the 1960-1961 season, 60 musicians in 1974, and 66 musicians in 1976, until it reached a full symphonic complenent of 88 players in 1987, when the orchestra's name was changed to the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra.

He led seven concerts per season in the orchestra's Halekulani Masterworks series.

He held the post for the 2003-2004 season, and was the orchestra's last chief conductor before its disbandment.

This news, announced by Jerome Toobin, the orchestra's administrative director, brought applause from the 2,800 persons who filled the hall.

The fact that the orchestra's recent rendition of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony in B minor was pretty much a piece of shit should not in any way detract from this.

Recent releases on BBC Legends, transferred from recordings of live concerts given at the Winter Gardens and elsewhere during Silvestri's tenure, provide a vivid record of the orchestra's style in this era.

In 1954, shortly after the orchestra's final concerts, Stokowski made stereo recordings for RCA of excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet and Menotti's ballet Sebastian.

For nearly a decade, the Symphony of the Air performed many concerts led by Stokowski, the orchestra's music director from 1955.

They soon hired the orchestra's first music director, Weston Gales, a 27-year-old church organist from Boston.

However, Luisi resigned from the Staatskapelle chief conductorship in February 2010, with immediate effect, after reports that the Staatskapelle's management had secured a contract with the ZDF network for a scheduled televised concert on New Year's Eve, 2011, without consulting him at all in his capacity as the orchestra's GMD.

During his tenure, the Philharmonic instituted a number of then-revolutionary ideas, including the creation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Chamber Music Society and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group and its " Green Umbrella " concerts ; both of these adjunct groups were composed of the orchestra's musicians but offered performance series which were separate and distinct from traditional Philharmonic concerts.

On September 21, 2006 the Philadelphia Orchestra became the first major United States orchestra to sell downloads of their performances directly from the orchestra's website.

Andrew Davis was the TSO's music director from 1975 to 1988, and is currently the orchestra's conductor laureate.

Klemperer retired from conducting in 1971, but was officially still the orchestra's principal conductor until his death in 1973.

In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the post of the orchestra's next music director.

During Järvi's 22 years as principal conductor, the orchestra's longest, its reputation on the world stage was greatly increased, including sponsorships from Volvo and a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon.

The orchestra's most recent principal conductor was Gustavo Dudamel, from 2007 to 2012.

Another factor in creating the orchestra's distinct character is that the Concertgebouw Orchestra has had only six chief conductors, setting it apart from orchestras of similar age and caliber.

Jochum was also a regular guest conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, and served as the orchestra's ' first conductor ' () from 1941 – 1943, during the chief conductorship of Willem Mengelberg.

In 1961, he was named assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ; however, the orchestra's music director designate, Georg Solti, was not consulted on the appointment, and Solti subsequently resigned in protest ; soon after, Mehta himself was named Music Director of the orchestra, and held the post from 1962 to 1978.

He resigned from the post in 2004 and now he is the orchestra's conductor laureate.

John Farnsworth Hall was recruited from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as the orchestra's first chief conductor.

In 2006, after recovering from throat surgery and the grueling Rockin ' the Joint Tour, Steven Tyler performed with Joe Perry and the Boston Pops Orchestra for the orchestra's annual Fourth of July concert, his first major public appearance since the surgery.

The set-up used for the recording of The Sorcerer's Apprentice was abandoned, and it was decided to record with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which Stokowski had directed from 1912 to 1938, at the Academy of Music concert hall in Philadelphia, the orchestra's home known for its good acoustics.

Several Members of Parliament from different parties expressed their opposition to the orchestra's demise at a May 2, 2008 meeting of the House Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage ; Bill Siksay ( NDP-Burnaby — Douglas ), Denis Coderre ( Liberal Canadian Heritage Critic ) and Ed Fast ( Conservative-Abbotsford ).

Richard Hickox, principal conductor from 2000 to 2006, was the orchestra's conductor emeritus until his death in November 2008.

When Paul Mauriat retired from the stage, he remained fully in charge of his orchestra's artistic direction — choice of conductors, musicians, programmes, etc.