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  • noun The position of conductor of an orchestra.

Etymologies

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From conductor +‎ -ship.

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Examples

  • This is but one item in a growing laundry list of angry and sometimes borderline Libelous remarks that Mac crowds -- initially under the conductorship of Grand Wizardess Sarah Palin -- have uttered.

    Shana Ting Lipton: Newspeak/Hatespeak 2008

  • It must be admitted here, that this is due partly to {381} its splendid rendering under Schuch's genial conductorship, and to the interpreters of the two principal roles in the drama.

    The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

  • In April of the following year four performances of the 'Elijah' took place at Exeter Hall under his conductorship, the Queen and Prince

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

  • The following year the Abbe recommended him to the conductorship of the Breslau Opera House.

    The World's Great Men of Music Brower, Harriette 1922

  • He rented the Odeon theatre, and got together an orchestra, the conductorship of which he entrusted to M. Edouard Colonne.

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • But Lamoureux was not long before he returned to the conductorship of the concerts, which had now returned to the Chateau-d'Eau theatre; and a few months before his death, in 1899, he conducted the first performance of Tristan at the Nouveau theatre.

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • When he himself was conducting concerts all over Europe he entrusted the conductorship at the Chatelet to the great German

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • After leaving the conductorship of the Opera, he inaugurated, on 21 October, 1881, at the Chateau-d'Eau theatre, the

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • His application for the assistant conductorship of the imperial opera house failed.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • But similar episodes seem to have been of frequent occurrence during his six years of conductorship.

    Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

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