But conductors tend to be of tougher mettle.
The playing of the orchestra is brilliant, though the conductor tends to drive faster tempos aggressively.
Transparent conductors are fragile and tend to break down due to fatigue.
Mr. Masur did not dawdle in the contemplative Adagio movement, the way too many indulgently Romantic conductors tend to.
Mahler often complained that conductors tended to "exaggerate and distort" his indications - "the largo too slow, the presto too fast."
Lacking any contextual guideline, conductors tended to overplay everything slightly.
Today, by contrast, conductors tend to have a much more tenuous relationship with their home cities.
A current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field tends to move at right angles both to the current and the field.
Hence, conductors used in the protection of facilities tend to be multi-stranded small wires woven together, that increases the surface area inversely in proportion to cross-sectional area.
Given the loss of so much fine music, it's understandable that most conductors, Mikhail Pletnev included, tend to prefer Tchaikovsky's original.