music director
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈmjuːzɪk dɪˈrɛktər/
:
director musical
- The music director led the choir during the holiday concert, ensuring perfect harmony.
- Kurt Masur, music director
- new music director
- school music director
Examples
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Peter Oundjian is to be the music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
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Orchestra! is hosted by Dudley Moore and features Sir Georg Solti as the conductor and music director.
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As it happened, he also got hired by my church to be the music director.
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As the steel band increases in popularity, music directors find themselves in need of new pieces for their groups to learn and perform.
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Teaching instrumental music may present some extraordinary challenges in urban schools, but urban instrumental music directors can build successful programs.
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By debriefing after a concert, the music director can relate strong or weak parts of the presentation to the students' efforts.
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Oundjian will also continue to be the music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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Prior to that, he was the music director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Germany.
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The board of managers hired Anthony Reiff as the NYIB's first music director in 1835.
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In 1946, Minerva Pepinsky was the music director and a recreational specialist at a U.S. Naval Hospital in Philadelphia.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
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4.4
A person who leads musicians in groups like an orchestra or choir
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7.6
A very skilled conductor or musician who leads an orchestra
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3.4
A person who leads a music group like a dance band or orchestra
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6.5
A person who leads a group of singers, often at church
1
5.8
A person who leads a band, often a military or marching band
A person who leads and trains a choir before performances so the singers perform together
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who leads or is responsible for musical aspects' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'music' (musical activity) with 'director' (a leader or person in charge). This noun–noun composition is a common, compositional pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Music director comes from the image of someone who 'directs' the music, like a director or conductor standing in front and guiding a group of musicians. That's why it means 'the person in charge of the musical side'.