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The Can(n)on Fires Back, Part 1
The Canonic Confusions of Simon Woods
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The Price of Equity, Part 1
Florence Price was a Good, Not Great, Composer. We Should Not Be Expected to Pretend Differently
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Don's Weekly: Harvard is insufficiently woke for one "undefinable artist"
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Southern Orchestra Executive Director Pushing to “Do Away with Blind Auditions”
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Don's Weekly Listen: Poulenc's Oboe Sonata
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Don's Weekly Listen: Shostakovich's Anti-Formalist "Rayok"
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Southern Orchestra Executive Director Pushing to “Do Away with Blind Auditions”
The 1970s innovation of blind auditions—in which auditioning musicians are heard but not seen—was a monumental step for fair hiring in orchestras…
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Conflict Resolution at the League
Dear readers: Please accept my continued apologies for putting The Podium on hold during this busy season. Paying subscribers will have noticed that I…
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Ewelldämmerung
Music theory's woke emperor has no clothes.
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Insult without Injury
Representational Sin at the Oscars
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Hey folks, I'm bi
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Don's Weekly Listen
Each generation projects its own musical tastes onto the past. Our own era’s bias (when we are not busying ourselves canonizing Florence Price), tends…
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Don's Weekly Listen: An Eclectic Suite
Happy Thursday! For this week’s Listen, we will be touring a seldom-explored corner of the repertoire: works for piano solo and string orchestra only…
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