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Day 188: 3. What is This?
Day 187: Trombone Stand
Day 186: What Is This?
Day 185: Plexi Screen
Day 184: What Is This?
Day 183: Biggest Heatwave Challenge
Day 182: Favorite Touring Vehicle
Day 181: Coping With Homesickness
Day 180: Baton Accident?!
Day 179: Weirdest Thing I’ve Carried?
Day 178: Strangest Meal On Tour?
Day 177: Strangest Transport To A Gig?
Day 176: Weirdest Food On Tour?
Day 175: Missed Flight To A Concert?
Day 174: Weirdest Cultural Encounter?
Day 173: Lost Passport On Tour?
Day 172: Tour Day From Hell?
Day 171: Worst Hotel On Tour?
Day 170: Musicians Crying On Stage?
Day 169: Can Orchestras Feel Mood?
Day 168: Can Conductors Read Minds?
Day 167: Weirdest Venue Ever?
Day 166: Most Unexpected Concert Moment?
Day 165: Conducting In Extreme Weather
Day 164: Impossible Acoustics?
Day 163: Why Does Violin 1 Bow First?
Day 162: How Are Orchestras Funded?
Day 161: How Do Musicians Join Orchestras?
Day 160: Are Conductors Freelance?
Day 159: A Day In Orchestra Life
Day 158: Finding Your Inner Voice
Day 157: Connecting With The Lyrics?
Day 156: Most Memorable Performance?
Day 155: How Do I Handle Uncertainty?
Day 154: Do I Work With A Team?
Day 153: Does Conducting Experience Help?
Day 152: Biggest Creative Factor?
Day 151: Perfecting An Interpretation
Day 150: The most dramatic entrance you’ve made?
Day 149: Do you conduct music you secretly disliked?
Day 148: Have you ever conducted the wrong piece in front of an audience?
Day 147: Have you ever accidentally cue'd the wrong section?
Day 146: Have you ever conducted a piece upside-down?
Day 145: Do you conduct from memory?
Day 144: Can a conductor make an audience feel suspense?
Day 143: How do string players coordinate bowing?
Day 142: How do conductors know every note in a score?
Day 141: How do brass players avoid running out of breath?
Day 140: Have you ever conducted with one hand due to injury?
Day 139: Thoughts on Eurovision 2026
Day 138: Who's the biggest diva you’ve worked with?
Day 137: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve been asked to autograph?
Day 136: Why do some instruments transpose?
Day 135: Give an example of a fugue in a John Williams soundtrack
Day 134: How do you communicate emotion to an orchestra without saying a word?
Day 133: Do conductors use different layouts?
Day 132: How do you decide which musical lines come through?
Day 131: Have you ever had an important part of a section not turn up?
Day 130: What comes first in movie music - the music or the picture?
Day 129: How can one composer write for every instrument in an orchestra?
Day 128: What is the '4' in a 3/4 time signature?
Day 127: What is the job of principal players in sections?
Day 126: Favourite time signature?
Day 125: How do orchestras tune with rock musicians?
Day 124: How do you decide on your interpretation of a piece?
Day 123: Have you considered writing a book?
Day 122: What’s the most bizarre fan gift you’ve ever received?
Day 121: Have you ever had a fan rush the stage?
Day 120: Unusual Facts – Edward Elgar
Day 119: Unusual Facts – Maurice Ravel
Day 118: Unusual Facts – Antonín Dvořák
Day 117: Unusual Facts – Gustav Mahler
Day 116: Unusual Facts – George Frideric Handel
Day 115: Unusual Facts – Hector Berlioz
Day 114: Unusual Facts – Antonio Vivaldi
Day 113: Unusual Facts – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Day 112: Unusual Facts – Johannes Brahms
Day 111: Unusual Facts – Richard Wagner
Day 110: Unusual Facts – Giuseppe Verdi
Day 109: Unusual Facts – Igor Stravinsky
Day 108: Unusual Facts – Claude Debussy
Day 107: Unusual Facts – Franz Schubert
Day 106: Unusual Facts – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Day 105: Unusual Facts – Johann Sebastian Bach
Day 104: Unusual Facts – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Day 103: Unusual Facts – Edvard Grieg
Day 102: Unusual Facts – Erik Satie
Day 101: Unusual Facts – Franz Liszt
Day 100: Unusual Facts – Ludwig van Beethoven
Day 99: Have you ever gone to the wrong venue for a concert?
Day 98: Have you ever experienced a cultural or language mishap while touring?
Day 97: Have you ever been stuck in a city you didn’t know, with no hotel or transport?
Day 96: Have you ever been stranded at an airport overnight and still had to make it to a show?
Day 95: What’s an ostinato or a riff in classical music, and why do composers use them?
Day 94: What are key signatures, and why do pieces in minor keys often feel sad or emotional?
Day 93: Why do musicians make funny faces when they play?
Day 92: What does counterpoint mean, and how do all those different melodies fit together without sounding messy?
Day 91: People talk about fugues a lot, especially with Bach — what exactly is a fugue?
Day 90: I’ve noticed things like D.C. or D.S. written in music — what do those tell the musicians to do?
Day 89: I always hear people mention 4/4 or 3/4 time — what does that actually mean when we’re listening to the music?