Musical Direction
| Maestro | Master, teacher | Conductor, music director, music teacher, also composer and other eminent musicians and singers |
| Maestro sostituto | Deputy master | Assistant conductor |
| Maestro collaboratore | Collaborating master | Assistant conductor |
| Maestro suggeritore | Master prompter | Prompter |
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Famous quotes containing the words musical and/or direction:
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)