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maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
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But there’s one skill that seems to leave this 5-foot-7 maestro looking up at everyone else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

I will miss watching the greatest maestro and savant in the history of basketball, LeBron James.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

The new CEO came into the role as an operational maestro who would bring a critical eye to that vast portfolio of businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Radio 1's dance music maestro Danny Howard tell us backstage.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Just as much, those maestri would defer to Mr. Drucker’s interpretations of clarinet solos.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

As an example let us take the case of the radio maestri.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was established in one of the halls of the Lateran, and even the Carlovingian kings obtained from it skilful maestri and organists.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

The art of Priscilla seems to me to satisfy this test much better than that of many of our modern maestri.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various

For five years now I've given up what I'd like to do, and I've tried, under the best maestri I could find, to make something out of my voice, so to speak.

From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Donning video headsets and armed with nothing more than a joystick and the Olympics’ fastest fingers, these maestros have the exact same objective as the athlete they’re filming: to be the best in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

This is not carefully considered maestros thinking out their strategies, six moves ahead of time.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

He delighted audiences at prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall and collaborated with jazz legends, Western classical orchestras, and Carnatic music maestros.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2024

The violinist Daniel Froschauer, the Philharmonic’s chairman, has said that today, the ensemble not so secretly has two maestros at the top of its roster: Riccardo Muti and Franz Welser-Möst.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

In the case of the classical musicians’ auditions, the maestros were incapable of making a fair judgment about how well someone was playing if they could see them.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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