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Walter Hendl
American conductor
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Beverly Sills
American operatic soprano (1929-2007)
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JoAnn Falletta
American conductor
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Alan Gilbert
American conductor and violinist
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Thomas Schippers
American conductor
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Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
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Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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Maurice Abravanel
Ottoman-American Jewish conductor
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Zubin Mehta
Indian conductor
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Canadian conductor and pianist
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Valery Gergiev
Russian conductor and opera company director
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Artur Rodziński
Polish conductor
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Kurt Masur
German conductor
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James Paul
American conductor
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George Shirley
American tenor
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Kent Nagano
American conductor and opera administrator
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Antonio Pappano
British born, Italian naturalized conductor and pianist
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Jesús López Cobos
Spanish conductor
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Jean Fournet
French conductor
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New York Philharmonic Orchestra
American symphony orchestra in New York, NY
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James Levine
American conductor and pianist
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Paul Plishka
Operatic bass
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William Steinberg
American conductor
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Julius Baker
American musician
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Henry Kimball Hadley
American composer
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John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
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Georg Solti
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
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Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor
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Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Riccardo Chailly
Italian conductor
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Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist
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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Spanish conductor
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Kirill Petrenko
Russian conductor
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Robert Shaw
American conductor, born 1916
