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

42.   After appealing the decision with help from the Norwegian ambassador, he was allowed to take the post if he was not officially listed as music director.

43.   Brian Jones, the music director at Trinity Church in Boston, had taught Nash at the private Noble and Greenough School.

44.   Both composers were music directors of the Philharmonic.

45.   But before Michael Tilson Thomas took over as music director two years ago, the repertory never strayed far from mainstream classical masters.

46.   But Fort Worth music lovers have long been accustomed to a music director who devoted himself to just one orchestra.

47.   But because Kellogg is not a conductor, as Keene was, the company is to appoint a music director as well.

48.   But his experiences as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra were not happy.

49.   But his position as the music director of the Dallas Opera is his central focus, and he wants his position to expand in the years ahead.

50.   But it has had a rough decade, marked by unhappy relationships with the two music directors who preceded Ashkenazy and dwindling state subsidies.