Before conductors find their place, they have other roles in the world of music. Usually, they’ve started their careers on one musical instrument before finding that standing on the podium is a much more interesting job. Can you guess what

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Before conductors find their place, they have other roles in the world of music. Usually, they’ve started their careers on one musical instrument before finding that standing on the podium is a much more interesting job. Can you guess what

1. Continuing on our bird theme, which English composer started with an 1881 poem by George Meredith and ended up with a work for solo violin and orchestra in The Lark Ascending? Critics of the time were struck with how