Possible Clues:

• Term is a problem for conductors
• Experts filling shirt seams up
• 'If Life is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing in the ___?' (Bombeck book)
• Graduate tires out-of-sorts Italian masters
• Many an expert's way to cut circulation of current papers
• Short hallucinogenic experience inferior to same high for wizards
• Skilled conductors
• Toscanini and Maazel
• 15-Across and others
• One's right to join up with the band leaders