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Ask A Conductor?
Two years ago two of my dear Tweeps @mcmvanbree and @laceyh started an awesome day of musical questioning. Including myself, Lorin Maazel, Sasha Makila, Vladimir Ashkenazy (through the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Twitter account)…
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World Orchestra Summit
“I’m about to turn the orchestra world on its head and spin it around a few times.” Stephen P Brown The current state of orchestras in the USA is embarrassingly unsound, to say…
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Have stick, will travel
For several years the busiest conductor on the planet was Valery Gergiev. His conducting style is unique (to say the least) but he gets players rallied together to produce fantastic live performances. Interestingly,…
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Too adventurous for our own good?
There was recently an unscientific poll taken amongst office workers in the USA. Whilst a myriad of issues, concerns, quirks and considerations could be used to undermine the results, I’m not really caring.…
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