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music director

DEFINITIONS OF: music director

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n the person who leads a musical group

Synonyms:
conductor, director
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Leonard Bernstein
United States conductor and composer (1918-1990)
Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)
Arthur Fiedler
popular United States conductor (1894-1979)
Paul Hindemith
German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)
Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky
United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951)
Leonard Constant Lambert
English composer and conductor (1905-1951)
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911)
Eugene Ormandy
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985)
Seiji Ozawa
United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935)
Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski
United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977)
George Szell
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970)
Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957)
Bruno Walter
German conductor (1876-1962)
Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber
German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)
Sir Henry Joseph Wood
English conductor (1869-1944)
Benjamin David Goodman
United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986)
Woodrow Charles Herman
United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987)
Alton Glenn Miller
United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)
John Philip Sousa
a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)
Types:
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bandleader
the leader of a dance band
bandmaster
the conductor of a band
drum major
the leader of a marching band or drum corps
drum majorette, majorette
a female drum major
Type of:
musician
artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
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