A conductor is really useful here,

I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

We're the orchestra and he's the conductor.

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.

Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.

And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,/ And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.