1.   But influential orchestra players and other critics questioned why Masur was confronted now.

2.   Fighting the wet outdoors is not easy for orchestra players, and this estimable group seemed a little weary at the close.

3.   He embraced Mehta, warmly grabbed the hands of every orchestra player within reach, and acknowledged the outpouring from the shouting, standing audience.

4.   His conducting is a mysterious code all its own, but orchestra players understand it perfectly.

5.   His orchestra players are solid professionals.

6.   His task is to know the work more thoroughly than anyone, from details of the stage drama to the individual parts of the singers and orchestra players.

7.   La Selva and his orchestra players, as usual, deserve much credit for putting this opera across.

8.   Many jaded professional orchestra players keep their eyes on their scores and watch the conductor, if at all, through peripheral vision.

9.   Never underestimate the resentment of orchestra players toward the bad conductor who takes credit for their ad hoc rescue operations.

10.   Orchestra players were quoted as saying the same thing to Donal Henahan of The New York Times when the hall opened.