1.   A New York Times News Service obituary about the Russian conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov in late editions on Sunday misspelled the surname of a pianist critical of his work.

2.   But few of the local critics had kind words for the Russian conductor, Alexander Anissimov, or for the choruses that sometimes sang almost directly upstage.

3.   It is little wonder why this Russian conductor, who has transformed the Kirov Opera, has made an international reputation for himself.

4.   It took a Russian conductor, Alexander Verdernikov, to conduct a Russian score.

5.   Not the career of the dynamic Russian conductor Valery Gergiyev.

6.   The Russian conductor Valery Gergiyev should be well known to New York opera fans.

7.   With the Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov on the podium, the orchestra devoted the first half of its program to Grieg and the second half to Rimsky-Korsakov.

8.   Famed Russian conductor Ilya Musin has died in a St. Petersburg hospital.

9.   Yakov Kreizberg, a Russian conductor who studied in the United States, has been appointed chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra announced Friday.