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Slatkin Helps Proteges Learn to Conduct Themselves

NPR | By Steve Inskeep
Published June 6, 2003 at 11:00 PM CDT

In Washington, several aspiring conductors get a chance to learn from a maestro. Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, offers his young charges advice ranging from clothing tips to the physicality of the job. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

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