Jeffrey Tate

As a featured guest conductor in nearly every major orchestra hall and opera house throughout the world, even Jeffrey Tate himself expressed astonishment at his own career. For, in a way much different than today's sometimes rather self-absorbed, globetrotting, jet-set conductors, Tate shone as a conductor who, having overcome serious adversity, accomplished what he did out of pure love for music and nothing else. Tate's struggles began in his childhood, when he was diagnosed with a neurological disorder known as spina bifida. Although he had to endure long hospital stays, do...