| GEORG | Longtime conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| SOLTI | Longtime conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| SEIJIOZAWA | Longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| OZAWA | Longtime conductor at Tanglewood |
| BARENBOIM | Daniel -, Argentina-born conductor and pianist; music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1991-2006 (9) |
| GEORGSOLTI | Hungarian conductor long associated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| LUTOSLAWSKI | Polish composer Witold ____'s third symphony was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1983 |
| KUBELIK | Alias used by "The Bear" on its filming notices, named for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's fifth music director |
| REINER | Fritz of the Chicago Symphony |
| MUTI | Chicago Symphony Orchestra "Music Director Emeritus for Life" Riccardo |
| SIRADRIANBOULT | Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for most of the 1950s |
| FRITZREINER | Conductor of Chicago Symphony: 1953-62 |
| TIMBER | Trees grown for use in carpentry; a lumberjack's exclamation warning a tree is about to fall; or, the nickname of the founder conductor of the Proms, Sir Henry Wood (6) |
| HAITINK | Violinist who was the principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra 1967-79 and musical director of Glyndebourne 1978-88 (7) |
| RATTLE | Simon, former principal conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (6) |
| ABBADO | Claudio, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra 1979-87 (6) |
| IWAKI | Japanese long-time conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Hiroyuki ... |
| ORAMO | Sakari, Finnish chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (5) |
| COLIN | Principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1995-2006 (5,5) |
| DAVIS | Principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1995-2006 (5,5) |
