The students who come to the Tanglewood Music Center help give the festival its artistic conscience.

In order to guarantee jobs for members of his company, the director trims and rationalizes while trying to maintain his artistic conscience.

Yet she touches a universal chord by reminding us that the artistic conscience is inseparable from the moral conscience.

"You must stick to your artistic conscience," Mr. Randall said, "such as it is."

The question is, whom do the boards listen to: managers, record-company executives, their box-office managers or their artistic consciences?

Uncompromisingly he followed his artistic conscience, his visual perception and the urge to translate that perception it into painting.

The Creative Arts Council, a volunteer group, is the unifying artistic conscience in the community, so to speak.

One may talk about artistic conscience or fan loyalty or all manner of mitigating factors.

They did a good job, but after a while the producer again felt twinges in his overdeveloped artistic conscience.

But does it follow that living opera composers, as a matter of artistic conscience, must turn a deaf ear to new technologies?