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Leading Through Polyphonic Harmony

I want to tell you about the moment I stopped trying to get everyone on the same note. It was years ago, in a rehearsal room, and I was doing what so many of us do: chasing unison. Same vowel, same breath, same attack — as if sameness were the goal. I was leading musicians, but I was afraid of the very thing that makes music powerful. Music was never meant t...