Dr. Williamson believed that a conductor could direct without using arms and hands.

An analogy would be the way in which a conductor directs a wide variety of instruments in an orchestra to produce a symphony that is recognized as a single comprehensible piece.

The conductor, Benjamin Levy, directed a large group of singers and musicians, mostly young and local.

Crucial Committee Review The Ways and Means Committee is especially important because it gets first crack at writing tax measures, and Mr. Rostenkowski controls his committee the way a masterful conductor directs an orchestra.

Outside, the conductor was directing the final movement:

If a conductor is "directing too much traffic" during a performance, it is also too late.

What other conductor of international renown would direct a program such as the one Mr. Davies leads today, consisting of works by Chinary Ung, Ezra Laderman, Richard Danielpour and Aaron Copland?

This was reflected in his decision to have a second conductor, Samuel Wong, direct the chamber orchestra, which was set up as a separate unit onstage.

I have watched famous conductors direct this music and I know just from looking at their backs that in some passages they are no longer in control, they are terrified.

This weekend the conductor Robert Spano presides over a performance of Puccini's popular one-act comedy, "Gianni Schicchi," in a fully staged production directed by David Kneuss at the Tanglewood Theater.