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to sticky notes, the classical music podcast.

My name is Joshua Wilerstein. I'm a conductor and I'm the

artistic director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lausanne Switzerland. This

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So not too much news to report to you in the last few days since my interview with

Augusta McKay Lodge went up and I hope you really enjoyed that.

I certainly learned a lot from it.

Next week we'll be having another interview with the amazing writer who I've brought up a dozen times at least in the show Jan Swafford.

We basically just talked about music for an hour going all different places to spending 20 minutes on the Aroika

symphony, a lot of time on Brahms, sometimes sometime on Ives, and also on Jan's own

music. So that was also a really fun time and it's been great to be talking to people who are also kind of stuck at the moment, kind of in stasis, not sure what's going to be coming next.

This part of the show has usually been bad news, but

there is some hints of movement in Europe at least. I read an article yesterday about Austria that they are going to start

allowing orchestras to rehearse relatively soon, which could mean we're getting towards

maybe concerts that are live streaming without

audience with musicians social distancing probably as a conductor have to wear a

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