conductor
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Mandell described Beckett as a conductor rather than a director.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Another world is depicted beneath the children — one that won’t be seen until four minutes before conductor Domingo Hindoyan raises his baton and the curtain begins to rise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
“I always give credit to my predecessors,” the conductor, ever the diplomat, said of the present state of his ensemble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
That’s his best guess of how expensive copper needs to be before industrial users switch to aluminum, a cheaper but less efficient conductor of electricity, and prevent the world from running out of copper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The conductor stuck his head in the car.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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The first was something he shared with all conductors of major American orchestras in the early 2020s: coping with the Covid-19 pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
All conductors struggle with the contents of such inaugural bills, wanting them to shine a spotlight without seeming self-aggrandizing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Phil and at 67 having become one of the world’s most impressive conductors and composers, he is moving back to L.A., where he will become the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
The LA Philharmonic's creative director Esa-Pekka Salonen described Harding as "absolutely one of the most important conductors of our time".
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
Some of them wore the uniforms of the jobs they’d had too: policemen, postmen, nurses, trolley conductors.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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