There were problems at the first performance: the chorus master died while the work was being learned.

He was eventually appointed the house's chorus master at the beginning of the 1848-1849 season.

A strange figure was kneeling beside the late chorus master.

John Keenan was the acting chorus master in the interim.

He returned to Glyndebourne in 1953 as chorus master and associate conductor.

"I did everything - pianist, assistant conductor, coach, chorus master," he said.

She is the chorus master at the Canadian Opera Company.

He was succeeded by Victor Fedorov, the chorus master since 1986.

"You never know who is going to show up," said Ms. Maxwell, who has been chorus master for eight years.

Crum was the company's first chorus master, and stayed with the company as coach and assistant conductor for 3 years until 1951.