(n.) The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(2) "Heck, you folks even get Fozzie's jokes, but it was the great impresario Lord Lew Grade who gave us our first big break ... and we're forever grateful to him and to everyone here in England."
(3) Speaking at the launch night of the venue, he criticised what he said was the commercialism of fringe impresarios who expect performers to take all the financial risk.
(4) It was good to see the Italian family of coffee impresario Renato Bialetti housing his ashes in a totally appropriate coffee pot urn last week.
(5) David Cameron , the Tory leader, said today that politicians could learn from X Factor supremo Simon Cowell, but he stopped short of offering the pop impresario a job in any future Conservative government.
(6) · Anthony Howard Wilson, record label boss, broadcaster and impresario, born February 20 1950; died August 10 2007
(7) Take the Everton chairman, Bill Kenwright, for example – about whom a sentence came dangerously close to being written without including the words "theatre impresario".
(8) It's a fairly straightforward tenet of business – and, consequently, impresarioing – that when you make an opening bid for something, you are sure that it represents the very best deal you could possibly achieve and that it will, in almost every circumstance, be rejected.
(9) McLaren, who had the band sign their record contract outside Buckingham Palace, had "showmanship in his blood", according to PR guru Mark Borkowski, who had worked with the impresario since the late 80s.
(10) The impresario and iconoclast Malcolm McLaren , who has died aged 64 from the cancer mesothelioma, was one of the pivotal, yet most divisive influences on the styles and sounds of late 20th-century popular culture.
(11) Motorola executive Regina Dugan, a former director of advanced projects for the US military who has been described as an "impresario of mad science", showed off an electronic "tattoo" and a pill which contains a transmitter whose battery is powered by stomach acid, both of which can be used to send signals that replace passwords for unlocking devices.
(12) "No single theory explains why this is happening," said Martínez, a Barcelona-based impresario whose recent successes include a run of Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(13) It's commanded by 65-year-old Floyd Soileau (pronounced 'Swallow'), an impossibly enthusiastic impresario whose opulent headquarters, located in a converted bank, rather suggest the Cajun equivalent of Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun or Motown's Berry Gordy.
(14) He was a performer, a journalist, an impresario and an entrepreneur.
(15) ITV1's blockbusting talent programme clashes with the launch of the US version of The X Factor later this summer and the hectic transatlantic shuttling that Cowell would have to do to be a judge on both shows would prove too exhausting even for the notoriously hard-working music and TV impresario.
(16) Ed Woodward, United's vice-chairman, is nothing to anyone – hell, he may not even exist – and he is certainly nothing to theatre impresario Bill Kenwright.
(17) The Grade family story is in itself a powerful metaphor of the manner in which popular British entertainment shifted from the stage to small screen – and a reminder of how important the impresarios of popular entertainment were within in the BBC, especially one competing with ITV for eyes on screen.
(18) Blandly dressed, and about as far from the cliche of the flamboyant opera impresario as you can imagine, the new director general of the BBC is thinking about the past, not the future.
(19) At which point, Tarantino steps out of his impresario-narrator role, addresses the audience and says, "For you who're counting, that's number one!
(20) Wilson certainly had a way of revving it up when the man behind Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub – music mogul, broadcaster, impresario and professional Salfordian – earned his crust presenting Granada Reports, staring into the cameras with a level of self-adoration not often witnessed on regional news programmes and clearly loving the fact his opinions went straight into people’s living rooms.
Promoter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.
(n.) Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like.
(n.) One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.
(n.) An informer; a makebate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(3) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(4) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(5) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
(6) The effects of hormonal promotion of T24-ras oncogene-transfected rat embryo fibroblasts (REF) were compared to cotransformation of these cells with adenovirus E1A and ras.
(7) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(8) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(9) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(10) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(11) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(12) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(13) Tumor promoting phorbol esters (1-1000 nM) could also inhibit PGE2 stimulated cAMP production dose dependently.
(14) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
(15) The 21K peptide had little direct effect on the selection of promoters in vitro as measured by this technique, but it dramatically increased the translatability of the product.
(16) It was found that these Hageman factor fragments promoted rapid proteolysis of one-chain factor VII to a more active two-chain form.
(17) As a result, trnK is under the control of the psbA promoter in this species and has therefore acquired psbA-like expression characteristics.
(18) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(19) One promoter factors is identical to u-EBP-E, an enhancer binding protein.
(20) Endogeneous satellite cells in skeletal muscle regenerating from bupivacaine damage were infected with an injected retrovirus containing the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene under the promoter control of the Moloney murine leukemia virus long-terminal repeat.