conductor
C837
concept
A conductor is an individual who directs the performance of an orchestra, choir, or other musical ensemble by guiding tempo, dynamics, and expression to unify the musicians’ interpretation of a piece.
Observed surface forms (5)
- bandleader ×40
- orchestral conductor ×16
- opera conductor ×5
- orchestra conductor ×3
- French conductor ×1
Instances (121)
- Howard Shore
- Jason Moran via concept surface "bandleader"
- Plácido Domingo
- Aaron Copland
- Gustav Mahler via concept surface "orchestral conductor"
- James Brown via concept surface "bandleader"
- Hector Berlioz
- Valery Gergiev
- Richard Wagner
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Max Weinberg via concept surface "bandleader"
- John Debney
- Carl Davis
- Desi Arnaz via concept surface "bandleader"
- Horace Silver via concept surface "bandleader"
- Humphrey Lyttelton via concept surface "bandleader"
- Osman Zeki Üngör via concept surface "orchestra conductor"
- Wynton Marsalis via concept surface "bandleader"
- Oswald George Nelson via concept surface "bandleader"
-
Ozzie
via concept surface "bandleader"
surface form: Ozzie Nelson
- Thomas Newman
- Bernard Herrmann
- Johann Strauss II
- Nikolai Sokoloff via concept surface "orchestral conductor"
- Nat King Cole via concept surface "bandleader"
- Meredith Willson
- Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Igor Stravinsky
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Natalie Koussevitzky
via concept surface "orchestral conductor"
surface form: Serge Koussevitzky
- Christian Gottlob Neefe
- Daniel Barenboim
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Olga Naumova
surface form: Serge Koussevitzky
- Quincy Jones
- Antonio Salieri
- Francis Farewell Starlite via concept surface "bandleader"
- Robert Glasper via concept surface "bandleader"
- Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson via concept surface "bandleader"
- Terence Blanchard via concept surface "bandleader"
- Joel McNeely
- Jon Batiste via concept surface "bandleader"
- Roy Ayers via concept surface "bandleader"
- Ossip Gabrilowitsch
- Harry Gregson-Williams
- John Powell
- Leonard Bernstein
- Bruce Springsteen via concept surface "bandleader"
- Jacques Samossoud
- Joey Newman