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Music Directors
1945-1966 Henry Sopkin
1967-1988 Robert Shaw
1988-2000 Yoel Levi
2001 now Robert Spano
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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Music Directors
1917-1930 Gustav Strube
1930-1935 George Siemonn
1935-1937 Ernest Schelling
1937-1939 Werner Janssen
1939-1942 Howard Barlow
1942-1952 Reginald Stewart
1952-1959 Massimo Freccia
1959-1968 Peter Herman Adler
1968-1984 Sergiu Comissiona
1985-1998 David Zinman
1999 now Yuri Temirkanov
Boston Symphony Orchestra
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1881-1884 Georg Henschel
1884-1906 Wilhelm Gericke, Arthur Nikisch, Emil Paur, Max Fiedler
1906-1908 Karl Muck
1912-1918 Karl Muck
1918-1919 Henri Rabaud
1919-1924 Pierre Monteux
1924-1949 Serge Koussevitzky
1949-1962 Charles Munch
1962-1973 Erich Leinsdorf
1973-2002 Seiji Ozawa
2004 now James Levine
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
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1945-1952 William Steinberg
1952-1963 Josef Krips
1963-1971 Lukas Foss
1971-1979 Michael Tilson Thomas
1979-1984 Julius Rudel
1984-1989 Semyon Bychkov
1989-1999 Maximiano Valdes
1999 now JoAnn Falletta
Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra
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1990 now Albert E. Moehring (Music Director/Conductor)
Charlotte Symphony
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Music Directors
1932-1943 Guillermo S. de Roxlo
1945-1946 Lamar Stringfield
1946-1948 Guy S. Hutchins, Sr.
1948-1949 Lamar Stringfield
1949-1957 James Christian Pfohl
1958-1963 Henry Janiec
1963-1967 Richard Cormier
1967-1976 Jacques Brourman
1977-1993 Leo Driehuys
1993-2000 Peter McCoppin
2001 now Christof Perick
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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1891-1905 Theodore Thomas
1905-1942 Frederick Stock
1943-1947 Désiré Defauw
1947-1948 Artur Rodzinski
1950-1953 Rafael Kubelík
1953-1962 Fritz Reiner
1963-1968 Jean Martinon
1968-1969 Irwin Hoffman (Acting)
1969-1991 Sir Georg Solti
1991 now Daniel Barenboim
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
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1918-1933 Nikolai Sokoloff
1933-1943 Artur Rodzinski
1943-1946 Erich Leinsdorf
1946-1970 George Szell
1970-1972 Pierre Boulez (Principal Guest Conductor)
1972-1982 Lorin Maazel
1984-2002 Christoph von Dohnányi
2002 now Franz Welser-Möst
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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1895-1907 Frank Van der Stucken
1907-1912 Leopold Stokowski
1912-1918 Ernst Kunwald
1918-1922 Eugène Ysaÿe
1922-1931 Fritz Reiner
1931-1947 Eugene Goossens
1947-1958 Thor Johnson
1958-1970 Max Rudolf
1970-1977 Thomas Schippers
1978-1980 Walter Susskind (music advisor)
1980-1986 Michael Gielen
1986-2001 Jesús López-Cobos
2001 now Paavo Järvi
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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1914-1917 Weston Gales
1918-1936 Ossip Gabrilowitsch
1936-1940 Franco Ghione
1940-1942 Victor Kolar
1944-1949 Karl Krueger
1951-1962 Paul Paray
1963-1973 Sixten Erhling
1973-1977 Aldo Ceccato
1977-1981 Antal Dorati
1981 now Antal Dorati (Conductor Laureate)
1984-1990 Günther Herbig
1991 now Neeme Järvi
Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra
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1949-1963 Ernst Hoffmann
1963-1977 Wolfgang Vacano
1979-1984 Ben Del Vecchio
1985-1988 Orcenith Smith
1991-1993 Allan Dennis
1993-1999 Jackson Wiley
1999 now Jackson Wiley (Music Director Emeritus)
1999 now Orcenith Smith
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
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1930-1937 Ferdinand Schaefer
1937-1955 Fabien Sevitzky
1956-1975 Izler Solomon
1976-1987 John Nelson
1987-2001 Raymond Leppard
2002 now Mario Venzago
Louisville Orchestra
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1937-1967 Robert Whitney
1967-1983 Jorge Mester
1983-1994 Lawrence Leighton Smith
1994-1998 Max Bragado-Darman
1998 now Uriel Segal
Memphis Symphony Orchestra
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1952-1984 Vincent de Frank
1984-1999 Alan Balter
1999 now David Loebel
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
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Music Directors and Conductors
1920-1929 F. Arthur Henkel (Conductor)
1946-1951 William Strickland (Director)
1951-1959 Guy Taylor (Director)
1959-1967 Willis Page (Director)
1967-1975 Thor Johnson (Director and Conductor)
1975-1976 John Nelson (Interim Music Advisor)
1976-1982 Michael Charry (Director and Conductor)
1982-1983 Kenneth Schermerhorn (Music Advisor)
1983 now Kenneth Schermerhorn (Director and Conductor)
Assistant and Associate Conductors
1947-1953 Andrew Ponder (Assistant)
1961-1963 Michael Semanitzky (Assistant)
1962-1963 Harry Newstone (Visiting)
1963-1965 Kenneth Goldsmith (Assistant)
1967-1971 Harold Cruthirds (Assistant)
1977-1980 Jay Dawson (Assistant)
1983-1984 William Fitzpatrick (Assistant)
1984-1988 Amerigo Marino (Associate)
1988-1991 Brian T. Groner (Assistant)
1992-1996 Karen Lynne Deal (Assistant)
1996-2001 Karen Lynne Deal (Associate)
2000-2004 Emelyne Bingham (Assistant)
2001 now Byung Hyun Rhee (Associate)
Pops Conductors
1991-1993 Bill Conti
1995-1996 Ronn Huff
Chorus Directors
1966-1968 Charles Nelson
1968-1983 Scott Withrow
1983-1986 Sandra Willetts
1987-1990 Raphael Bundage
1990-1994 David Cassel
1994-1997 Tom Mitchell
1997 now George Mabry
New England Philharmonic Orchestra
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1977-1980 Charles Ellis
1980-1983 Allen Olsen and Kenneth Seitz
1983-1988 Ronald Feldman
1988-1987 Jeffrey Rink
1997 now Richard Pittman
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
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1842-1847 Ureli Corelli Hill
1848-1865 Theodore Eisfeld
1855-1876 Carl Bergmann
1876-1877 Leopold Damrosch
1877-1891 Theodore Thomas
1891-1898 Anton Seidl
1898-1902 Emil Paur
1902-1903 Walter Damrosch
1906-1909 Wassily Safonoff
1909-1911 Gustav Mahler
1911-1923 Josef Stransky
1922-1930 Willem Mengelberg
1928-1936 Arturo Toscanini
1936-1941 John Barbirolli
1943-1947 Artur Rodzinski
1947-1949 Bruno Walter
1949-1950 Leopold Stokowski
1949-1958 Dimitri Mitropoulos
1958-1969 Leonard Bernstein
1969-1990 Leonard Bernstein (Laureate Conductor)
1969-1970 George Szell
1971-1977 Pierre Boulez
1978-1991 Zubin Mehta
1991-2002 Kurt Masur
2002 now Lorin Maazel
Philadelphia Orchestra
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1900-1907 Fritz Scheel
1907-1912 Carl Pohlig
1912-1941 Leopold Stokowski
1936-1980 Eugene Ormandy
1980-1992 Riccardo Muti
1993-2003 Wolfgang Sawallisch
2003 now Christoph Eschenbach
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
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1928-1929 Elias Breeskin
1930-1937 Antonio Modarelli
1937-1938 Otto Klemperer
1938-1948 Fritz Reiner
1948-1952 (Guest Conductors)
1952-1976 William Steinberg
1976-1984 Andre Previn
1984-1996 Lorin Maazel
2004 now Daniel Meyer
Rochester (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra
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1923-1931 Eugene Goossens
1923-1925 Albert Coates
1936-1944 José Iturbi
1947-1955 Erich Leinsdorf
1959-1963 Theodore Bloomfield
1964-1969 László Somogyi
1974-1985 David Zinman
1985-???? Jerzy Semkow
1999 now Christopher Seaman
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
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1961-1971 Karl Kritz
1971-1975 Frederik Prausnitz
1975-1985 Christopher Keene
1985-1992 Kazuyoshi Akiyama
1992 now Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor emeritus)
1992-1999 Fabio Mechetti
1999 now Daniel Hege
