For the first time a woman has been named music director of a major American orchestra.
Mr. URCOLA: Yeah, my father was a music teacher, was a band director at the time in one of the few schools they have a big music program in Argentina.
McG - born Joseph McGinty Nichol - became known as a music video director and went on to direct the two Charlie's Angels films in 2000 and 2003.
The fact that MTV would put a scrawny, flopsweat-soaked, 21-year-old college-radio music director on its airwaves for an hour and a half (not to mention the fact that it would employ Kennedy for years) might have been cause to question the network's judgment.
Dan Trueman, professor of music at Princeton University and a director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, isn't worried.
Nadja always leads our interpretations as music director, but she is such a sensitive musician that she picks up on what we are giving back and responds accordingly.
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"It has focused on its other lines, such as handsets, but given attention and resources, it could take a larger share of the music player market, " says Susan Kevorkian, a director of consumer market research at IDC.
Jazz icon Miles Davis was a huge boxing fan and even did some training, according to John Szwed, a professor of music and director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia.
The court heard Mr Brewer started work at Chetham's in 1975 and after leaving he continued to serve as the music director of the National Youth Choir, a post he held until this court case.
But the pleasure of "Birders, " elegantly crafted by Jeffrey Kimball, a first-time director and longtime local birder, who previously worked as a music supervisor on films by the likes of Steven Soderbergh, Gus Van Sant and John Sayles, is that the ultimate star is Central Park.
"This is going to be on everone's mind for a long time, " music director Tony Mascaro said.
"The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director, " he wrote in his memoir.
Mark Lawrence, director for PRS Music, said the move was a "risky strategy - one that has to succeed".
The film definitely bears the handiwork of its first-time feature director McG who has a background in music videos and commercials.
He was the Oregon Symphony's music director from 1980 until 2003, transforming it from a small, part-time group into a full-time nationally recognized orchestra with 17 recordings.
"I just love that when a director decides to feature great classical music that is already in existence, " Benedetti says.
Songwriters Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook, Backer and Coca-Cola's music director Billy Davis would write and produce the jingle within just a few days.
Michael Tilson Thomas, the longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony, adopted the word for a pair of festivals that he mounted in 1996 and 2000.
Venezuelan-born Dudamel is himself a product of El Sistema, and is also music director of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the flagship of El Sistema.
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Marin Alsop philanthropist, music director and leader was paying it forward and proving to be a hero who far exceeds expectations.
This year, Marin Alsop became music director of the Baltimore Symphony, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.
In 2007, Marin Alsop will become music director of the Baltimore Symphony, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.
Elsewhere on the list, a knighthood has been conferred upon Antonio Pappano, the music director at the Royal Opera House in central London.
Director Hugh Macdonald said they use their new home to bring classical music to a wider audience.
The work had its East Coast premiere Wednesday night at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by its music director Gustavo Dudamel.
"When Chinese see programs made in the West, there is nothing they can relate to in their lives, " says Xiao Jian, a 37-year-old director of TV dramas and music videos.
He's also the mariachi director at a program run by a nonprofit out of the Brooklyn Music School that began last year, and he started an all-female mariachi band in February.
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To Scott Sanford, senior client director at Davie Brown Talent, a top provider of celebrity talent and music licensing for companies and ad agencies, Stone's heavily reported gaffe is evidence of the risk that comes with signing celebrity endorsers.
Prague's music-themed Hotel Aria is perhaps the only hotel in the world with a musical director.
But that didn't discourage David Handel, a native of Buffalo, New York, who became the orchestra's music director in 1997.
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