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Don in City Journal
Nov 19, 2022 • Don Baton
The Can(n)on Fires Back, Part 1
The Canonic Confusions of Simon Woods
Jun 15, 2022 • Don Baton
The Price of Equity, Part 1
Florence Price was a Good, Not Great, Composer. We Should Not Be Expected to Pretend Differently
Apr 10, 2022 • Don Baton
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Don's Weekly: Harvard is insufficiently woke for one "undefinable artist"
Nov 29, 2022 • Don Baton
Southern Orchestra Executive Director Pushing to “Do Away with Blind Auditions”
Aug 11, 2023 • Don Baton
Don's Weekly Listen: Poulenc's Oboe Sonata
Oct 12, 2022 • Don Baton
Don's Weekly Listen: Shostakovich's Anti-Formalist "Rayok"
Nov 10, 2022 • Don Baton
I Promise I'm not John McWhorter
Feb 2, 2023 • Don Baton
Don's Weekly Listen: Balakirev's Islamey
Oct 20, 2022 • Don Baton
The Decline of the Met: New article in The Spectator
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Oct 7, 2025 • Don Baton
Music after DEI
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May 20, 2025 • Don Baton
How the Kennedy Center can help return American classical music to sanity
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Feb 26, 2025 • Don Baton
Symphony on Native Land
Cris Derksen with the Orchestre Métropolitain
Mar 19, 2024 • Don Baton
Cover Letter for Submission of New Drug Gretamine for Emergency-Use FDA Authorization, Submitted by High Tide Therapeutics Ltd. on February…
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Mar 10, 2024 • Don Baton
Classical Music's Diversity Fat Cats
A nonprofit may not be doing much good, but its leading couple is doing very well.
Feb 21, 2024 • Don Baton
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.
Aug 11, 2023 • Don Baton
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