Daniel Harding is 35 and making his debut with the New York Philharmonic this weekend. I tried to remember if I ever conducted a rehearsal of anything when I was 16. I don't think so. If I did, it certainly wasn't Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. It would have been something like an arrangement of songs from Les Miserables or The Phantom of the Opera, both staples of my youth orchestra's repertoire. A videotape of those pieces wouldn't be worth much today.
If anyone does have footage of my brief appearance on stage at Georgetown University's Gaston Hall conducting the Georgetown U. Orchestra with a plastic chicken, I'd like to see it.
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