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Dear Alma, I’m a white, male, 30ish conductor. What hope?
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Hyperbolic opera press release of the year
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Wynton Marsalis: Get more hair on your sound
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Dear Alma, Is my elite music PhD worth anything?
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Suffering orchestras (5): Unpaid London musicians walk out
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No US conductors, no women, in Carnegie Hall season
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