Accepted wisdom holds that orchestras benefit from long, productive association with eminent conductors.

Some of his early recording sessions were for Walter Legge, standing in when Otto Klemperer and other eminent conductors were ill.

Imagine the Philharmonic with Mr. Spano as its adventurous leader, someone with big ambitions but self-confident enough to regularly welcome eminent conductors as guests.

Her father was an eminent conductor and her mother an Impressionist painter.

For the last 30, he has been director of the Princeton-based ensemble, making some 40 recordings and preparing the choir to perform under eminent conductors, while he sits in the audience.

In fact, some eminent conductors have told me that's one of the reasons St. Luke's is so good.

Rather, he treats the eminent conductor like vile scum; he might as well be interrogating Goebbels himself.

Boyer played Franz Roberti, the passionate and eminent musical conductor while Hepburn was Constance Dane, an aspiring but unknown composer.

He also performed with such eminent conductors as William Steinberg, Leonard Bernstein and Dimitri Mitropoulos.

Champions of his work included such eminent conductors as Eduard van Beinum and Willem Mengelberg.