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		<title>Connecting Music and Gesture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 01:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this fascinating article published recently in the New York Times! Filed under: conducting, Conducting Videos, leadership, Orchestra Business, Rehearsal, Teaching Conducting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2446&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doers and Drifters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Napoleon Hill&#8217;s Keys to Success offers the aspiring conductor much in the way of food for thought. While not a book written by Hill, as such, it is a collection of notes and speeches he gave that was published after his death. Toward the end of the book one can find two lists, those for &#8220;doers&#8221; and those for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2435&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Great Leaders Inspire Action</title>
		<link>http://conductorsblog.com/2012/03/31/how-great-leaders-inspire-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this interesting talk by Simon Sinek: &#160; Filed under: conducting, leadership, Orchestra Business, Rehearsal, Teaching Conducting, Teaching Music<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2404&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Law of Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:20:20 +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&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2387&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering a composer&#8217;s place</title>
		<link>http://conductorsblog.com/2012/02/04/pondering-a-composers-place/</link>
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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&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2250&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<link>http://conductorsblog.com/2012/01/15/happy-new-year-3/</link>
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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&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2200&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Law of Magnetism</title>
		<link>http://conductorsblog.com/2011/11/16/the-law-of-magnetism/</link>
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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&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2096&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Basic&#8221; Reading List?</title>
		<link>http://conductorsblog.com/2011/11/07/a-basic-reading-list/</link>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2091&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2079&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductorsblog.com&#038;blog=10012935&#038;post=2076&#038;subd=conductorsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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