21.   Nagano, a Grammy award winner who also is the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Opera, took up his post in Berlin last fall.

22.   Now principal conductor of the Netherlands and Israel chamber orchestras, Entremont said he always expected the co-op to make it.

23.   Renato Palumbo, principal conductor of the Cape Town Opera Theatre, was on the podium, making his American debut in this run.

24.   Slatkin, who is also conductor and musical director of the National Symphony in Washington, D.C., became principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra last year.

25.   That year Levine became artistic director and principal conductor of the Krakow Philharmonic, the first American to conduct an Eastern European orchestra.