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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…
Aug 11
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June 2023
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…
Jun 9
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Don Baton
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May 2023
Ewelldämmerung
Music theory's woke emperor has no clothes.
May 2
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Don Baton
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March 2023
Insult without Injury
Representational Sin at the Oscars
Mar 20
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Don Baton
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Hey folks, I'm bi
...musical
Mar 3
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Don Baton
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Hey folks, I'm bi
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February 2023
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…
Feb 24
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Don Baton
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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…
Feb 9
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Don Baton
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I Promise I'm not John McWhorter
And Don's Weekly Listen
Feb 2
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Don Baton
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January 2023
Moving on from Alex Ross
Don's latest in City Journal
Jan 27
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Don Baton
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Don's Weekly Listen
Happy 2023, and welcome to a new year of Don’s Weekly Listens! Most times when we run across a work by a canonic composer that is never performed, we…
Jan 6
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Don Baton
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December 2022
Merry Christmas!
To all Podium devotees: A Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones, and a heartfelt thank-you for all your support in our first year. I hope this…
Dec 25, 2022
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Don Baton
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Don's Second Weekly Christmas Listen
One of the many beautiful things about Christmas music is its ability to reach across the ages. It not only affords us the ever-amusing spectacle of…
Dec 20, 2022
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Don Baton
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