Goldberg Variations Mini-Episode + Announcement

I’m sharing today’s mini episode for two reasons - the first is
that I wanted to show all of you who are not subscribed on
Patreon what I put up there every week. Every Thursday, I do a
sort of deep dive on a specific passage that I didn’t have time
to get to in the main show. Sometimes its a specific passage or
orchestration that I particularly love, or sometimes it’s looking
at a specific movement, like today’s episode on the 25th
Variation of the Goldberg Variations.  I really enjoy doing
these episodes, as they really allow me to get right into the
nuts and bolts of how a passage is put together. The second
reason I’m sharing this episode today is that I need to make the
announcement, the happy announcement, that I am very likely to be
beginning to conduct again after a period of 5 months.  In
September the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and I are planning a
Beethoven Cycle where we play all 9 symphonies in 11 days, the
perfect way to shake the rust off!  But the partial
resumption of my conducting schedule means that I will no longer
have time to make two episodes a week. SO we’re going to return
to the pre-pandemic schedule of a new show every Thursday BUT I’m
also going to continue making these mini-episodes, so if you
would like to check those out, do check out the Patreon page at
patreon.com/stickynotespodcast.