31.   Barenboim, the music director of the Chicago Symphony and the Berlin State Opera, took the initiative in bringing the two orchestras together.

32.   Before taking over the Houston Symphony, Eschenbach had been the principal guest conductor of the London Symphony and the music director of the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich.

33.   Besides his recently completed assistantship at the Cleveland Orchestra, he was music director of the Haddonfield Symphony in New Jersey for five years.

34.   A colleague of mine recently asked the New York spokesman of an important record company whether the music director of a major American orchestra was on its label.

35.   A love of music dominated the life of Klemperer, the son of the conductor Otto Klemperer, who was the music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

36.   A half-hour later, Boston Symphony music director Seiji Ozawa and Pops Conductor Laureate John Williams were introducing him to the press assembled in Symphony Hall.

37.   A year later Eschenbach accepted a position as music director of the Rheinland-Pflaz State Philharmonic Orchestra.

38.   Accompanied by her longtime music director, Wally Harper, on piano, and Jon Burr on bass, she seems to be defying time and gravity.

39.   After a public clash of wills, Vidusso also dismissed the veteran composer Gian Carlo Menotti as music director.

40.   After a try for Broadway success, he returned to Texas, joining the faculty at the University of St. Thomas in Houston as music director.