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	Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Concertmaster
		Viewed from the audience, the concertmaster is the first person to the conductor's left, in the row of violins closest to the audience.
		In modern times, the concertmaster has retained the ceremonial duty of presiding over the tuning of the orchestra onstage before a performance, and he usually has the honor of coming onstage last, after all the other musicians are seated.
		But when a concertmaster plays in a manner that is emotionally committed, consistently accurate, rhythmically reliable, and always beautiful, he sets an example that exerts a strong positive influence on his colleagues and contributes in an important way to the overall quality of an orchestra's music making.
	www.cso.org /main.taf?p=1,1,4,6 (425 words)

	Music Preview: Concertmaster's duties keep orchestra in beat
		Although the concertmaster occasionally must "crack the whip," as Cardenes calls it, the largely amicable relationship between him and the group isn't without friction.
		The concertmaster is responsible for all violin solos within a piece, since many works call for brief passages for single violin.
		Most concertmasters also are established soloists, performing outside the confines of their own orchestra.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000210cardenes5.asp (979 words)

	Baltimore Symphony Orchestra > Press Room > In the News
		Carney, 39, is concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and has worked often with BSO music director Yuri Temirkanov, who served as the Royal Philharmonic's principal conductor during the 1990s.
		In British orchestras, the term for concertmaster is "leader," a word that has been heard a lot in reference to Carney during the BSO tour.
		Carney, 39, was guest concertmaster with the BSO at the start of the season in September.
	www.baltimoresymphony.org /pressroom/inthenews/view.asp?id=40000057 (669 words)

	Concertmaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The concertmaster makes decisions regarding bowing and other technical details of violin playing for the violins, and sometimes all of the string players; and is in charge of leading the orchestra in tuning before concerts and rehearsals and other technical aspects of orchestra management.
		The concertmaster in a standard wind band is the first-chair clarinet or Flute, and leads the ensemble's tuning.
		A concertmaster is a position of considerable pressure, and as a result a lot of respect is earned for the concertmaster from fellow wind band members.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Concertmaster (229 words)

	The Concertmaster
		As one might expect, the relationship between the concertmaster and conductor is of prime importance.
		Whether as a soloist, concertmaster, or chamber player, Lowe sees his music-making as a means of developing links with his many other activities.
		It is a cliché that concertmasters are to orchestras what divas are to opera.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm4-8/Concertmaster.htm (1027 words)

	The Concertmaster (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As concertmasters and soloists, they not only have great prestige, but also play a crucial role as mediators between conductor and musicians.
		Denise Lupien has been concertmaster of the Orchestre Métropolitain since its inception, and in addition to all the usual responsibilities of this job, has been involved in one aspect that is basic to the development of a new orchestra: setting up a score library from which programs are chosen.
		This may be true in a superficial sense, but, as we have seen, the concertmaster's role combines the sensitivity of the solo artist with the ability to inspire the ensemble as whole.
	www.scena.org.cob-web.org:8888 /lsm/sm4-8/Concertmaster.htm (1027 words)

	ELIZABETH (Libby) FRYE MASON - Associate Concertmaster And Personnel Contact
		At present she is the Associate Concertmaster of the Roswell Symphony Orchestra and Personnel Contact.
		The Associate Concertmaster assists in marking musical suggestions from the conductor, discusses bowing markings and turns the pages of the music.
		In that case, the Associate matches the Concertmaster in tone and rate of speed of vibrato.
	www.roswellsymphony.org /mason.html (635 words)

	The HooK: FACETIME- Look out, Leopold: New concertmaster keeps busy
		The concertmaster is the first violinist in a symphony orchestra, sitting closest to the audience and to the left of the conductor.
		As the last member to enter the stage before the conductor, the concertmaster presides over the tuning-up and acts as an assistant to the conductor, transmitting his cues to the larger orchestra.
		In other words, the concertmaster is part co-captain and part union rep, with a whole lot of rhythm going on.
	www.readthehook.com /stories/2002/12/11/facetimeLookOutLeopoldNewC.html (458 words)

	Thomas K. Weber — Concertmaster
		Years ago, when orchestras were smaller, the concertmaster was literally the “master” of the concert — the conductor.
		But as orchestras grew to 40, 50, 60 people and more, a musician playing could not physically conduct that large a group, and a conductor was required.
		The first violin chair — the Concertmaster — is the leader of the musicians, responsible for many subtle aspects of pitch and unity throughout the concert.
	www.roswellsymphony.org /concertmaster.html (470 words)

	ISO's Conductor and Concertmaster to Trade Places for Concert \| theledger.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Arthur Pranno, concertmaster of the Imperial Symphony Orchestra, is slated to temporarily trade his bow for a baton during ISO's concert on Tuesday.
		Pranno was a new faculty member at Florida Southern College, and Mark Thielen - then the concertmaster of the Imperial Symphony Orchestra - and Michael Sedloff, its principal cellist, asked him to come along to a rehearsal of the Imperial Symphony, which is a true amateur orchestra.
		He became the Imperial Symphony's associate conductor and concertmaster when Thielen was named conductor in 2000, and this week, he will take a turn at conducting the orchestra for the first time in a few years.
	www.theledger.com.cob-web.org:8888 /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061023/NEWS/610230309/1326 (1243 words)

	CNN.com - Career - Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster: 'Music as medicine' - March 29, 2001 (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The concertmaster is seated nearest the conductor's podium on stage.
		With the concertmaster are all the other violinists of the ensemble, on the left side of the stage from the audience's viewpoint.
		The concertmaster is the only one in the orchestra with a private dressing room, so I can come upstairs and during the intermission (of concerts), I grab some practice time.
	www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2001/CAREER/trends/03/29/nyphil.violin/index.html (4923 words)

	OPO Musician Bio - Lev Gurevich
		Lev was Concertmaster of the Brevard Symphony in the late 1990s, Assistant Concertmaster and Acting Concertmaster of the Bach Festival Orchestra in the early and mid-1990s, and was the Assistant Concertmaster of the Florida Symphony Orchestra (FSO) from mid 1980’s until 1993.
		During those years, he was the Acting Concertmaster of the FSO for the 1989-90 and 1991-92 seasons.
		Lev is currently the Associate Concertmaster of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he has held for several years.
	www.orlandophil.org /bios/gurevich.shtml (223 words)

	Concertmaster routine/etiquette
		Last concert, the concertmaster forgot to stand when the conductor walked out, so when he got to the podium, he had to turn to us and motion for us to stand.
		I've noticed concertmasters also leave separately before the rest of the orchestra, when the concert is finished.
		concertmaster should enter from same side as the conductor but comes on first and receives a separate applause.
	www.violinist.com /discussion/response.cfm?ID=7990 (1968 words)

	Strad as Concertmaster - Beethoven's 5th - Northern Sound Source
		The concertmaster plays a special and vital role in an orchestra, but this key element is rarely mentioned in relation to orchestral libraries.
		The concertmaster is often the principle violinist who occupies the first chair of the first violin section of an orchestra.
		In orchestral music you often hear the concertmaster weaving his or her violin in an out of the sonic tapestry of the orchestra.
	www.northernsounds.com /forum/showthread.php?t=48700 (885 words)

	Julius Schulman: Life with a Violin
		He was soloist for and concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and toured to South America as a violinist with the All American Youth Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski.
		In 1944, he accepted the position of assistant concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner, where he was featured six times as a soloist with the orchestra, in perfomances of the Tchaikovsky and Paganini 1st violin concertoes.
		Once when both the concertmaster and assistant concertmaster fell ill, Schulman took the concertmaster chair for several performances, including on the BSO's tour to New York, because he was the only violinist in the orchestra whom concertmaster Joseph Silverstein had confidence could sight-read difficult concertmaster solos in a modern composition.
	www.pulpless.com /jneil/violin/julius.html (1441 words)

	Beacon Journal \| 02/26/2006 \| Concertmaster's job a plum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Given that William Preucil, concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, is the mentor of the new program, this idea seems bound for success.
		Now in its second year, the Concertmaster Academy is intended to groom a person for the specific leadership demands of the job.
		A concertmaster needs to show the rest of the violin section where their bows should be placed on the string at any given moment.
	www.ohio.com /mld/ohio/living/13959834.htm (1304 words)

	NPR : Nurit Bar-Josef
		When she was a child, she not only knew the name of the concertmaster in the nearest symphony (Joseph Silverstein), but she admired his work, particularly on concertmaster solos such as "Swan Lake." (A concertmaster leads the first violins in an orchestra.)
		She got a little closer to that chair when the Boston Symphony Orchestra recruited her to be assistant concertmaster when she was only 24.
		As concertmaster, Bar-Josef says she spent much of this summer marking up the 173 scores that the orchestra will play this season, ensuring that all of the bows go in the same direction.
	www.npr.org /programs/wesun/features/2002/nurit (716 words)

	The Concertmaster
		Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and was appointed in 1988 as Artistic Director and Concertmaster of the Prague Chamber Orchestra without a Conductor.
		His contribution to the Singapore culture, beside his main work as a Concertmaster, includes concerto appearances, recitals, radio programmes, chamber concerts and the training of Singapore's young talented violinists.
		After a permanent return to Czech Republic in 1996, Prantl was appointed as a first Concertmaster of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and as Artistic Director of the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.
	users.czn.cz /~prantl/master.html (831 words)

	Concertmaster - Simple English Wikipedia
		The Concertmaster (American English) or leader (British English) is the most important violinist in an orchestra.
		He or she will sit in the front seat, by the conductor's left.
		In America it is usual for the concertmaster to be on the platform before the concert and to tell the orchestra to tune their instruments, playing on his A string to give them the correct pitch.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Concertmaster (252 words)

	TIME.com: Concertmaster -- Jan. 21, 1957 -- Page 1
		For the rest, the concertmaster's job is done out of the public view, preparing the violins for the effects the conductor wants, marking the bowings, in general setting the tone of the orchestra.
		In the small 18th century ensembles, the other musicians often took their lead from the first violin, but growing orchestras, complex scores and the public's demand for a good show have made the conductor virtually irreplaceable.
		Under Conductor Charles Munch, who used to be a concertmaster himself, Concertmaster Burgin's job moves along well-established grooves, but it was different under the late Serge Koussevitzky, whose famous, poetic perorations had to be translated into technical terms, e.g., how to make the violins sound like first love or the flutes like ice breaking.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,865688,00.html (659 words)

	The ChronicleHerald.ca (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In marking the 100th birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) with an extraordinarily moving performance of his Fourth String Quartet in Rudolf Barshai’s orchestration for chamber orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia conductor Bernard Gueller delivered an unusually long podium talk about the chronic terror Shostakovich lived with under the mortally censorious eye of Josef Stalin.
		Gueller announced that the search for a new concertmaster to replace Terence Tam ended dramatically with the offer and acceptance of the position by Richard Uchida.
		An orchestra without a concertmaster is like Lawrencetown Beach without a lifeguard.
	www.herald.ns.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /Entertainment/535368.html (677 words)

	Pacific Symphony Orchestra concertmaster soloing 10/16/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Concertmaster Raymond Kobler and Pacific Symphony Orchestra perform in concert at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
		Then there was the time Kobler was personally selected by the late legendary conductor Sir Georg Solti of the Cleveland Orchestra to serve as co-concertmaster of the World Orchestra for Peace in 1995 — an orchestra consisting of concertmasters and principal players from the world’s major orchestras.
		“ There I was, sitting with the principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra and the principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra,”; said Kobler, who had not seen these musicians since his six-year stay with Cleveland as associate concertmaster ended with his appointment as concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony in 1980.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Bstories/oct16/kobler.html (1109 words)

	Fret over being concertmaster
		I am frustrated because I might never be concertmaster of either of the two orchestras I am in.
		Maybe it is worth asking the conductor if there is a reason he/she might not want you to be concertmaster (in the spirit of you trying to find things to improve in yourself).
		In addition to all the prior valid comments, don't forget that the position of concertmaster is a big job.
	www.violinist.com /discussion/response.cfm?ID=6397 (1737 words)

	In Memoriam Julius Schulman
		After two seasons, he returned to New York as concertmaster of the Little Orchestra Society under conductor Thomas Scherman, where Schulman soloed extensively both nationally and internationally, including a command performance of the Beethoven Romance in F at the presidential palace in Vietnam for President Diem.
		Once while the Boston Symphony was on tour to New York, and both the concertmaster and assistant concertmaster fell ill, Schulman took the concertmaster chair for several performances, because he was the only violinist in the orchestra whom concertmaster Joseph Silverstein had confidence could sight-read difficult concertmaster solos in a modern composition.
		During his tenure in Boston, in addition to performances of concertos with the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Schulman was concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and first violinist of the Stockbridge String Quartet, which was comprised of Boston Symphony members.
	www.pulpless.com /jneil/memoriam.html (1320 words)

	Oregon Symphony News: Amy Schwartz Moretti Named Concertmaster; Appointment Concludes Season-Long Search
		Portland, Ore. … Amy Schwartz Moretti, valedictorian of her class at The Cleveland Institute of Music and concertmaster of The Florida Orchestra for the last five years, is the new concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony, Music Director Carlos Kalmar announced today.
		She is completing her fifth season as concertmaster of the Florida Orchestra and performs in a variety of small ensembles with the Florida Orchestra Chamber Players and the Phoenix Chamber Music Society as well as the Moretti-Polera-Kluksdahl Piano Trio.
		In December, 2003, she was guest concertmaster and soloist with the Oregon Symphony performing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Robert King conducting.
	www.orsymphony.org /news/0304/0521_concertmaster.html (825 words)

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