He quickly signaled his reluctance to take on future music directorships, crying, "No more jobs!

And given the lively market in American music directorships, his name has been on every headhunter's lips.

But it's not a music directorship of a major orchestra.

He professes not to want another music directorship in America.

And a music directorship in America today is none of those three things.

His 15-year music directorship remains the longest tenure of the orchestra.

In 1978, he became the conductor of the Berkeley Symphony, his first music directorship.

When he finally moves on, he said, it will not be to the music directorship of another orchestra.

He has turned down half a dozen music directorships in the United States and Europe.

Two significant music directorships and some high-level guest-conducting dates do not make a revolution.