71.   This is not how many esteemed senior conductors heading other major American orchestras feel, including Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic.

72.   This marks the first residency by an American orchestra at the Paris venue.

73.   To make things worse, New York is one of three major American orchestras seeking conductors.

74.   Under the contract Levine can take on another American orchestra only with the approval of the Met board.

75.   When classical-record labels responded to falling sales in recent years by trimming production budgets, American orchestras watched helplessly as projects were canceled and contracts went unrenewed.

76.   With a seemingly endless wave of appointments of prospective music directors at major American orchestras finally completed, can a wave of long goodbyes be far away?

77.   With the kinds of difficulties American orchestras face today, Mehta may well prove the more important catch.

78.   Most big classical labels are owned by multinational corporations with no interest in promoting American orchestras, he said.

79.   New Jersey joins several other American orchestras that have recently changed conductors, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

80.   She is one of the few women to head an American orchestra of notable size.