31.   He will also begin to expand his guest-conducting activities, especially among the great American orchestras.

32.   His pieces have been performed by only a handful of American orchestras.

33.   I have always felt that American orchestras, in particular, are too quick to turn to great eminences who are more often than not European.

34.   In New York, he deals with a fractious American orchestra culture, impatient with perceived mediocrity and quick to make its complaints known.

35.   In any case, the current scene is not very good for the big American orchestras.

36.   It is still hard to get a fix on precisely where Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony stand in the suddenly fluid scheme of American orchestras.

37.   It projected the demise of many American orchestras unless they fundamentally changed the ways they did business.

38.   It was invited to Vienna for a festival of American orchestras last October, but the money could not be raised.

39.   Kenneth Haas, who held managerial positions with the Boston Symphony and other American orchestras, died on Saturday in Newton Upper Falls, Mass.

40.   Like other American orchestras, the Pittsburgh frantically tries to replace the musical education programs that public schools have abandoned.