http://blog.sashamakila.com/ This is the travel diary of conductor Sasha Mäkilä. You will read all about his rehearsals, concerts, competitions and master classes while he is on the road. en Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:20:05 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://blog.sashamakila.com/post/2007/11/14/Off-to-another-conducting-competition#c6131257 urn:md5:28a238821e3686d77826aee28e97b33b Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:54:52 +0100 yang <p>next conducting competition</p> http://blog.sashamakila.com/post/2007/10/28/10-Reasons-Why-You-Should-Participate-in-Conducting-Competitions#c4417432 urn:md5:6a9611634285e35418202f32546607dd Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:47:04 +0100 Yiorgo Moutsiaras <p>Dear Sasha,<br /> your article is very interesting and very convincing!</p> <p>I have to agree with you that competitions by their own are not helping music because the standards the jury judjes are very subjective and attitudinal. After all, music is an Art and unlike sports you can't have a line to cross first or to make the best time (except if you always take fast tempi... lol) and that's why the non winners shouldn't feel as loosers.</p> <p>The reasons you give for participation are quite good and correct to my opinion. Unfortunately this is &quot;the game we have to play&quot; to achieve something better nowadays, so why not have some proffit from it? I'd like to believe that the attitude of the competitors -something you don't see at all their faces- is not to win all the rest of their colleagues but to show the best they have for Music's sake, for the better future of classical music and showing that they can serve this Art the best they can! Let's hope it!</p> <p>Good luck in Poland!<br /> Yiorgo.___________</p> http://blog.sashamakila.com/post/2007/09/26/Matacic-competition-in-Zagreb-started#c3714083 urn:md5:67bc09bf99c3291b09fc1a5575dbdc63 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:07:26 +0200 josip <p>madame is Metoda Lhotka PR of Foundation Matacic;)</p>