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   Chapter 1: for a chat as well and i started off by asking him if there was a moment when he knew that conducting was what he wanted to do i wanted to to give a story about me you know listening to a mother symphony when i was a child and was moved but that's untrue that's a romantic view the truth is i actually just i went to conducting quite gradually i was trained as a trombonist And I spent a lot of time sitting in the orchestra, at the back of the orchestra, counting rest. 299s · Speaker 2

   for a chat as well and i started off by asking him if there was a moment when he knew that conducting was what he wanted to do i wanted to to give a story about me you know listening to a mother symphony when i was a child and was moved but…

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   Chapter 2: twiddling my thumbs. 299s · Speaker 1

   twiddling my thumbs. So I decided to look into what kind of repertoire was missing in Singapore. And I thought, you know, there were music that I was very passionate about, but also underperformed or underrepresented in Singapore or this pa…

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   Chapter 3: This aria is called Her World Was Full and it's taken from his opera Losing Lily. 116s · Speaker 1

   This aria is called Her World Was Full and it's taken from his opera Losing Lily. And this opera is about dementia. Again, you know, we talk about current issues and things very close to our heart. So Lily, who is the mother, is, you know, …