Hello and I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic director of the

Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lozan Switzerland. This podcast is for anyone who loves

classical music, works in the field, or is just getting ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music.

Before we get started, I want to thank my new Patreon sponsors Jonas, Stephen, and Darren,

and all of my other Patreon sponsors for making season six possible. If you'd like to support the show

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So as always, I like to tell you what I'm up to this week, but once again, more concerts have been canceled since last week.

And so I want to use this time this week to reiterate my plea from last week for you to

support your local arts organizations.

If you have tickets for concerts coming up that are not going to be able to happen, do consider donating the ticket price back to the ensemble or the organization that's putting on the concert.

This is obviously for all industries

are having a lot of trouble.

A lot of governments are now going to be reimbursing salaries

during this sort of shutdown,

but a lot of freelancers are going to be left out in the cold.

And so again, if you can do anything to support your local arts organizations, it will go a long way,

especially right now, as a lot of them are really staring in the face of bankruptcy already.

And I want to emphasize that today because I adore doing this podcast.

It's become much more than a side project and since I'm not optimistic that I'll be

conducting much before June I've really poured a lot more time into it. I'm even thinking of

bumping up to two episodes a week at least through May. But if I'm going to be able to do that, I'm going to have

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