Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Definitely Not The Opera

The First Minute Of A Ten Thousand Hour Journey

Tue, Apr 4, 2009
by Drew McManus
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to Joff Schmidt, Associate Producer of CBC Radio One’s Definitely Not The Opera (DNTO), about what it means to be a professional musician; or, more specifically, the difference between amateurs and professionals. You can almost smell the loaded questions with this topic, can’t you? Nonetheless, the discussion was
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