This spring will be a busy one.  I have 8 performance to conduct in a 6 month span.   There will be between 42 and 46 pieces of music performed during that time.    Aging as a conductor is not always a bad thing because this usually means that one has previously conducted at least some of the repertoire that is coming up.   I'm lucky to have 3 fabulous graduate conducting students to take some of the load off me.  

I often consider what life would be like to not have this constant pressure of...
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