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Conducting Rodgers & Hammerstein

Harish Shankar, The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

01-Jun-17 14:30

Conducting Rodgers & Hammerstein

Catching the resident conductor just as he is about to step into a rehearsal and listening to him explain his approach to preparing to conduct whether it is classical music or popular music as in a musical. He responds to the question, “What is the difference between an opera and a musical?”


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