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maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
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Whatever your response to that statement - and it could be debated for hours - it cannot be denied that the Argentine maestro is among the best players to ever set foot on a pitch.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

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

Mr. Reynor, who recently had a thankless starring role in “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy,” is back on track as this arrogant but talented backstage maestro.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

It was easy not to be serious about the old fellow, for he was that peculiar creation which ignorant people laugh at—a genuine maestro.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

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

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

At the city's New Empire Theatre, he orchestrated several "big-band concerts", he wrote, flying in Bombay-based maestros like Ken Mac and Sonny Lobo, and vocalists like Jean Statham and Pamela McCarthy.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

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

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

At 56, Aguilar stands as one of the most respected maestros in contemporary Mexican music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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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