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As I spend this July doing miscellaneous things both related and unrelated to music, I’m again reminded of the strange feeling that came over me as this last season ended.\u00a0 It was a feeling that the axis of the world had turned minutely, but clearly, and that there would be a wholesale realignment of peoples’ lives – both at the micro and macro level.\u00a0 It was a scary feeling when I first sensed it, but now I’m coming to the conclusion that this shifting of energy is going to allow those of us who are open to it the chance to take advantage of some amazing opportunities – the open vistas of the new.<\/p>\n
Sorry to get all new-age on you – and I’m not really that type at all, but sometimes things don’t happen inside the nice little box one has created.<\/p>\n
So, I hope that musicians and management in orchestras around the country that are struggling with aging paradigms are able to embrace the possibilities of the new, that newspapers and music publishers give up antiquated and dying ways of doing business, and that out of the ashes of the old will spring the seeds of the thriving coming century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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