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		<title>Cello Hero Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this post I linked to the Berlin Phil&#8217;s Cello Challenge. Now, video game blog Kotaku has picked up on the game. Much to my delight, their readers (I am also one myself) were generally impressed with this simple little &#8230; <a href="https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/cello-hero-update/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>On Pops, part 1.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been wanting to write this post for almost a week but it has required a lot of passive thinking-about, hence the lack of substantive posts in the meantime&#8230; Two pops shows in two weeks has got me thinking &#8230; <a href="https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/on-pops-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Have you Heldenlebened lately?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The whole thing! part 1: youtube link to playlist of the entire performance. Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic.]]></description>
		
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		<title>No one sets out&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to be a smooth jazz musician. That is all.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cello Hero!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  From the Berlin Philharmonic: Cello Challenge Sure there&#8217;s a limited number of &#8216;songs,&#8217; (1,) but this certainly has a better chance of engaging the masses and getting them interested in classical music than its closest competitor, the ill-fated Sousaphone &#8230; <a href="https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/cello-hero/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Please! Won&#8217;t somebody please think of the children?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Playing injuries are an all too common in this line of work. A cornucopia of tendinitis, blown chops, and back problems are the most likely, but I have mastered injuring myself in a way that is surely unique to bass &#8230; <a href="https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/please-wont-somebody-please-think-of-the-children/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Conducting continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“For [a] conductor this is a question of how to use his personality and his education… the strength of his character… so that the musicians will be very quickly involved of the atmosphere of the piece. It doesn’t really matter &#8230; <a href="https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/conducting-continued/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How important is conducting technique?</title>
		<link>https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/how-important-is-conducting-technique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wondering recently about the importance of the physical part of what a conductor does. There are certainly many very renowned musicians with no formal training who are making careers out of conducting (or at least substantially supplementing their &#8230; <a href="https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/how-important-is-conducting-technique/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8230;with a bang! (aka: Take That, Cloverfield)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know much about this guy, but he&#8217;s Finnish and this could be the European Union Youth Orchestra&#8230; this has to be one of the most awesome videos I&#8217;ve seen (well, in the classical music sense anyway.) The way &#8230; <a href="https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/with-a-bang-aka-take-that-cloverfield/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>New look</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rebirth of this blog required a new theme. I like this one (Cutline) because it&#8217;s easy to read and looks suspiciously like a typical New York Times webpage, thus lending me a certain degree of suggested credibility. I promise &#8230; <a href="https://philharmonist.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/new-look/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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