Happy New Year!!

Hello Everyone! Brian and I are working on a slew (spelling?) of FASCINATING posts for the Conductorsblog in 2010. Brian’s escapades at the the Midwest Convention are soon to be posted and will, I’m sure, go down as legendary.  In addition, his research on graduate conducting programs is completely fascinating in that super geeky, super music-nerdy kind of way.  Look for his future posts on these topics soon!

I am currently finishing the rest of the 101 Do’s and Don’ts for student conductors and working on ideas that have been percolating for how undergraduate conducting programs are organized.

We are also working on some guest bloggers, but you will just have to wait for those surprises!

We hope you keep checking in with us in 2010 and keep commenting, participating, and sending us your ideas.

Happy New Year to everyone!  We hope it is a great start to a new decade!

And just for some fun, a rip-roaring finale to Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony.  It has little to do with the tempos suggested by Mr. Shostakovich and a lot of great late 70’s-Early 80’s camera work, but it is still a lot of fun!