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The title of music director or musical director is used by many symphony orchestras to designate the primary conductor and artistic leader of the orchestra. An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures The term "music director" is most common for orchestras in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the With European orchestras, the titles of "principal conductor" or "chief conductor" are more common, which designate the conductor who directs the majority of a given orchestra's concerts in a season. In musical theatre, the music director is in charge of the overall musical performance, including ensuring that the cast knows the music thoroughly, supervising the musical interpretation of the performers and pit orchestra, and conducting the orchestra. Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance.

In the 20th century, the title and position typically brought with it an almost unlimited influence over the particular orchestra's affairs. As implied by the name, the music director not only conducts concerts, but also controls what music the orchestra will perform or record, and has much authority regarding hiring, firing, and other personnel decisions over an orchestra's musicians. Such authoritarian rule, once expected and even thought necessary for a symphonic ensemble to function properly, has loosened somewhat in the closing decades of the 20th century with the advent and encouragement of more power sharing and cooperative management styles (with the orchestra musicians themselves, the administrative staff, and volunteer board of directors). The music director in American lingo also assists with fund-raising, and also is the primary focus of publicity for the orchestra, as what is often called its "public face". ^[1]

The term "music director" or "musical director" became common in the United States in the middle of the 20th century, following an evolution of titles. Early leaders of orchestras were simply designated as the "conductor. " In the 1920s and 1930s, the term musical director began to be used, in order to delineate the fact that the person in this position was doing much more than just conducting, and to differentiate them from guest conductors who simply led one particular program or concert. George Szell, for instance, was appointed as "musical director" of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946, and his position was so named until his death in 1970. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> George Szell (ˈsɛl ( June 7, 1897 &ndash July The Cleveland Orchestra, located in Cleveland, Ohio is one of the major symphony Orchestras in the United States. His successor, Lorin Maazel, was given the title "music director. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Lorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a " Other major American orchestras kept more current with the times and began using the simpler term in the 1950s and '60s.

Alternatively, the term "music director" used to appear in the film credits for a professional hired to supervise and direct the music selected for a film or music documentary, but today the more common designation is music supervisor. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality A music supervisor, also sometimes called a music coordinator or musical director is an individual who combines Music and visual media

The "music director" for a theatrical production or Broadway musical often serves as rehearsal pianist and conductor. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located

Brass bands, wind bands, choirs, opera companies and other ensembles may also have musical directors. A brass band is a Musical group generally consisting entirely of Brass instruments, most often with a percussion section A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, or wind ensemble For the musical composition see Chorale. A choir, chorale, or chorus is a Musical ensemble of Singers Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto

In India, where a large number of movies are produced as musicals, the term 'music director' is commonly used for the composer of the songs used in the film. Usually, another artist will receive the credit for the lyrics of the songs. In addition, the music director may also be involved in producing the songs for the film and for composing the score.

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