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  2. Conducting - Wikipedia

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    Herbert von Karajan conducting in 1941. Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture."

  3. Film director - Wikipedia

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    A new Hollywood director typically gets paid around $400,000 for directing their first studio film. [ 37 ] The average annual salary in England is £50,440, [ 38 ] in Canada is $62,408, [ 39 ] and in Western Australia it can range from $75,230 to $97,119. [ 40 ]

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Television crew - Wikipedia

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    The television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other filmed aspects of a television production. The role differs from that of a film director because the major creative control usually belongs to the producer.

  6. Auteur - Wikipedia

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    Film director and critic François Truffaut in 1965. Even before auteur theory, the director was considered the most important influence on a film. In Germany, an early film theorist, Walter Julius Bloem, explained that since filmmaking is an art geared toward popular culture, a film's immediate influence, the director, is viewed as the artist, whereas an earlier contributor, like the ...

  7. Theatre director - Wikipedia

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    A director providing instruction. A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production.

  8. Baton (conducting) - Wikipedia

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    As was the common practice, he was beating time by banging a long staff (a precursor to the baton; the French word bâton actually meaning "staff") against the floor when he struck his toe, creating an abscess. The wound turned gangrenous, but Lully refused to have his toe amputated and the infection spread, resulting in his death on 22 March.

  9. List of metonyms - Wikipedia

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    Also used as a word for police corruption and cover-up. [37] Holyrood: An area in Edinburgh: The Scottish Parliament, which is located in that area, or more generally the Scottish Government [38] Horse Guards: A cavalry barracks at Whitehall, London Commander-in-chief of the British army and his staff before 1857 [39] Hrad ("The Castle")