Exemplary Maestro Michael Morgan, 63
It was a 1976 young conductors competition of the Baltimore Symphony, with a predictable array of well-scrubbed young men in their early- to mid-20s competing. And in this group appeared a striking youth, barely 17, seemingly from another world, wearing the casual togs he’d used for any day at his public high school. For the finals he conducted a movement from a Brahms symphony that propelled me to my feet to watch intently. He evoked ear-caressing sounds of ethereal beauty,…