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		<title>Pondering a composer&#8217;s place</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, how&#8217;s that for a provocative title? I was sitting in a student&#8217;s recital pre-screening recently and a thought started to hit me while I was listening to her play (she did rather well, I might add). She played three pieces of contrasting style: one by a &#8220;Great Composer,&#8221; another by a supposedly &#8220;Great Composer&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2250&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us here and conductorsblog be among the last to wish you Happy New Year! We hope your 2012 is full of wonderful music-making and growth! Today my friend and wonderful trumpet teacher, Eric Swisher, forwarded me a very interesting article.  Over the winter break we got a chance to catch up and discuss things both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2200&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Law of Magnetism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: This is part of a series based on John C. Maxwell’s book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.) John C. Maxwell has written a number of books about leading and leadership.  They all have their merits and some of the books will resonate more with some readers than others, but it is his book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2096&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Basic&#8221; Reading List?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post refers to an earlier post of mine, &#8220;A &#8216;Basic&#8217;Repertoire List?&#8221;  (This may be the first time I have been so openly self-referential on this blog!) The aforementioned post describes, briefly, my first conducting lessons as a freshman in college wherein the professor handed me a &#8220;basic&#8221; repetoire list. I really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2091&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 15 years out &#8220;in the field&#8221; conducting, I decided to go back and get a doctorate.  I was ready for a career change, and the doctorate was a way to get the credentials to become a university conductor, which was my goal for the next phase of my career.  It turned out to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2079&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Programming, Programming, Programming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[not my first conducting teacher One of my first conducting teachers said to me, &#8220;You know, how they say in real estate, &#8216;location, location, location?&#8217;Well, it&#8217;s like that when you are a conductor: &#8216;programming, programming, programming.&#8221;&#8216; Come to think of it, he didn&#8217;t say much more than that. I remember nodding in tacit agreement not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2076&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Law of Intuition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: This is part of a series based on John C. Maxwell’s book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.) John C. Maxwell has written a number of books about leading and leadership.  They all have their merits and some of the books will resonate more with some readers than others, but it is his book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2066&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who will take up the baton?</title>
		<link>http://conductorsblog.com/2011/09/26/who-will-take-up-the-baton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are moving forward in Boston after the departure of James Levine.  I can see the classified ad now: &#8220;Orchestra seeking conductor. Interested parties send resume and references to&#8230;&#8221; Or are they? Read a fascinating article about it right here. Filed under: conducting, leadership, Orchestra Business<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2007&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Levine&#8217;s Ripple Effect</title>
		<link>http://conductorsblog.com/2011/09/21/levines-ripple-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A very interesting article published today by the New York Times regarding James Levine&#8217;s recent health issues. I love the thought of &#8220;musical tetris!&#8221; &#160; Filed under: Auditions, conducting, leadership, Music Writing, Orchestra Business<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2003&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sergiu Celibidache</title>
		<link>http://conductorsblog.com/2011/09/20/sergiu-celibidache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibudache doesn&#8217;t often come up in American discussions of great conductors &#8211; we often reference Karajan, Bernstein, Abbado, Rattle, Muti, Barenboim, Carlos Kleiber and, recently, Dudamel. (Dudamel so much these days that the latest crop of young conductors have what I call the &#8220;Dudamel Syndrome&#8221; &#8211; but more on that later.) Take a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&amp;blog=10012935&amp;post=2000&amp;subd=conductorsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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