1.   He has earned a reputation as an innovative programmer and an orchestra builder, primarily through his five-year relationship with the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

2.   He is a brilliant technician, a consummate orchestra builder.

3.   His work as an orchestra builder in Birmingham was altogether admirable, and widely recognized as such.

4.   It needed an orchestra builder.

5.   Now in his sixth season, Masur has won consistent critical praise for his abilities as an orchestra builder, his masterly technique and his probing musical insights.

6.   That, after all, is what an orchestra builder does.

7.   The last full-time music director, Mstislav Rostropovich, though a great musician, was a poor orchestra builder, too busy elsewhere to provide steady guidance.

8.   Think of Eugene Ormandy, a masterly orchestra builder.

9.   When the symphony hired Giordano, it got a champion orchestra builder, a conductor who started from just about as close to scratch as you can get.