81.   Every good chemical reaction that exists between this urban American orchestra and its austere Central European music director seemed to be at work.

82.   Everyone but the Boston Symphony Orchestra is saying that James Levine is the leading candidate to succeed Seiji Ozawa as music director.

83.   Except in Atlanta, where an orchestra barely out of its community phase was looking for a music director.

84.   Fit also applies to music directors and their local public.

85.   Family friends, including Tony Martin and his wife, Cyd Charisse, and Academy Awards music director Bill Conti, heaped on the praise.

86.   For brass, getting there takes a recommendation from a high school music director.

87.   Five years later, he was appointed music director for the Fort Worth symphony.

88.   Flowers arrived from James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera.

89.   For the next six years Rudolf was the associate of George Szell, then the music director of the German Opera in Prague.

90.   For these reasons, the Philharmonic should consider younger, hipper and preferably American candidates for music director.