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William Eddins, maestro and blogger extraordinaire, has crafted a post<\/a> about a series of myths that have been perpetuated about the art\/practice of being a conductor – I highly recommend it.\u00a0 Also of interest – the bit where he talks about how being just three or four feet removed from one’s usual position on stage can have a major effect upon one’s performance – sound familiar<\/a>?<\/p>\n

[link<\/a>] – Sticks and Drones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Eddins, maestro and blogger extraordinaire, has crafted a post about a series of myths that have been perpetuated about the art\/practice of being a conductor – I highly recommend it.\u00a0 Also of interest – the bit where he talks about how being just three or four feet removed from one’s usual position on stage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-167","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7076,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/20\/myths-monsters-and-the-new-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":4223,"position":0},"title":"myths, monsters, and the new world","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night the Oregon Symphony played a concert that is, in many ways, emblematic of the tenure of our current music director Carlos Kalmar. 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