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🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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This week continues my project of reuploading seasons 1-5 in new and improved sound quality! The opening of Mozart's 40th symphony is one of the most recognizable tunes in the whole repertoire, but to this day we don't know what it is about or even why Mozart wrote it. But even though it can be frustrating to not know these answers, it's also exciting and potentially rewarding to go searching for answers on our own! Today we'll talk all about this dramatic piece, and all of its many twists and turns.
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0:00.0 | Hello and I. I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Luzon Switzerland. |
0:18.0 | This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just getting ready to dive in to this |
0:23.4 | amazing world of incredible music. Before we get started I want to thank my new |
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0:32.0 | for making season 6 possible. |
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0:48.8 | So it's actually turned into quite the busy month. |
0:52.0 | I had actually planned in |
0:53.0 | in October being relatively light so that I could do some work on the |
0:55.6 | U.S election but the pandemic has appended everything just as always. |
1:00.1 | So what's going on is that due to travel restrictions and quarantines a lot of |
1:03.8 | conductors have to sort of play musical chairs or musical podiums and are |
1:08.2 | constantly replacing each other when we get stuck due to the new travel restrictions. |
1:11.8 | In my case I was in Liverpool last week |
1:14.6 | replacing Vassili Petrenko who was stuck in Russia. This week I'm conducting at the |
1:18.4 | Guild Hall school in London and next week I'll be heading back to Liverpool if all goes well to replace Domingo Indoyan who is also stuck in Switzerland due to the quarantine regulations. |
1:29.3 | So with that said I've had to learn a ton of repertoire on the fly over the past few weeks, so I once again just didn't have time to write and record a whole new episode. |
1:38.6 | I had planned a three-part Patreon-sponsored episode on Moller's Third Symphony, but I just couldn't get it done this week. |
1:46.8 | So I've gone back into the archive and decided to continue my re-uploading project by re-recording |
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