1.   At the time, Joyce was living in Washington, D.C., where her husband, Randall Craig Fleischer, was serving as associate conductor of the National Symphony.

2.   Harry Ellis Dickson, associate laureate conductor, played a ratchet symbolizing the return carriage.

3.   He had been associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony and its Pops for five years and had been a guest conductor with many symphonic groups nationwide.

4.   He was also an associate conductor of the San Francisco Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Ravinia Festival, the Opera Company of Boston and EMI Records.

5.   There is also an exceptional current team of associate conductors, Federico Cortese and Ilan Volkov.

6.   There were no more than three associate conductors on Broadway, and no female music directors in New York, Bobbitt said.

7.   Thomas moved in quick succession from assistant conductor to associate conductor to principal guest conductor of the Boston Symphony.

8.   He also served as associate conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and as artistic director of contemporary music at the Aspen Festival in Colorado.