Word: conductor
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...players also lack a conductor. The group did get one coaching session with the Mendelsohn String Quartet, but they generally rely on collective past experience and carefully-honed instincts to constructively criticize themselves...
...expected to exceed $100 billion, and with market capitalization of $302 billion, the company is in a close race with Microsoft for the title of Most Valuable. GE chairman Jack Welch isn't the innovator that GE's founder Thomas A. Edison was, but this son of a railroad conductor and lifelong GE employee would certainly get my vote for CEO of the century...
Lawrence-King is an ideal person to introduce early music, as he has quite an impressive background. He won an Organ Scholarship to Cambridge and attended the London Early Music Center. He is the Baroque conductor and founder and director of two ensembles, has made solo recordings and was the recipient of two significant awards...
...official Cultural Ambassador of the Sydney, Australia 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. The November 13 performance at Symphony Hall was also a part of BankBoston's annual Celebrity Series. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the orchestra's 1988 American debut in Carnegie Hall. Led by Dutch conductor Edo de Waart, the orchestra makes its first appearance since then as they tour 11 U.S. cities, performing the music of Beethoven, Richard Strauss and contemporary composer Graeme Koehne...
When it is time to clap, there is the delicate dance between the conductor or soloist and the audience. The trick is for the performer to leave the stage before the crowd loses its enthusiasm and stops clapping. That way it seems like the audience is asking the performer to please come back out and bow at least one more time while everyone is still inclined to put their hands together. This requires good timing and an excellent ear to judge the volume of the applause, two things every musician should have. How embarrassing it would be to come back...