1.   Both the Ulster Orchestra and the Festival are happy to welcome George Hanson, the young American conductor who is crossing the Atlantic for this concert.

2.   All told, the commemoration speaks eloquently indeed for the St. Louis Symphony and the formative seasons of Slatkin, this thoroughly American conductor.

3.   American conductor Dennis Russell Davies, long a champion of American music from his bases in Europe, conducted a grand, sweeping performance.

4.   Barzin helped train several generations of conductors and symphony musicians, pushed for hiring of American conductors and women and black musicians.

5.   But Botstein, the American academic turned conductor and festival director, has exposed those numbers to the full glare of recordings.

6.   But he added that he was proud of his achievements as one of the few American conductors in charge of an American orchestra.

7.   His students included American conductor Hugh Wolff.

8.   It seemed an appropriate note on which to welcome an American conductor back from abroad.

9.   One American conductor tells of working in Spain and finding bowing instructions given in the first rehearsal simply ignored or forgotten in the second.

10.   Slatkin has proved himself an American conductor in more than birthright and public pride.