A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the coordinator of the musical ensembles in a university, college, or institution (but not usually the head of the academic music department), the head bandmaster of a military band, the head organist and choirmaster of a church, or an Organist and Master of the Choristers (a title given to a Director of Music at a Cathedral, particularly in England).
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“Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)