It turns out that conductors are pretty busy during the holidays. Who knew! So, since everybody’s busy with performances of the Nutcracker, Jeremy is going solo today and sharing some of my favorite Podcasts and Books for all you conductors and students out there.

Podcasts

Music

San Francisco Symphony: Program Notes Podcast
CoffeeHouse Classical Music Podcast
The Entrepreneurial Musician with Andrew Hitz
Off the Podium
Listening to Ladies
Centennial Sounds
Song Exploder

Leadership/Marketing/Self-Improvement

Personal Favorites

Lexicon Valley
Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Books

Conducting Books

Score and Podium – Frederik Prausnitz
Art of Conducting Technique – Harold Farberman
Inside Conducting – Christopher Seaman
The Compleat Conductor – Gunther Schuller

History/Theory of Conducting

The Great Conductors – Harold C. Schonberg
The Maestro Myth – Norman Lebrecht
Anatomy of the Orchestra – Norman Del Mar
Norton Critical Scores
Biographies

Business/Productivity/Other

Beyond the Baton – Diane Wittry
Savvy Musician – David Cutler
Good to Great – Jim Collins
How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
Outliers and Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
Your Best Year Ever – Michael Hyatt
The Productivity Project – Chris Bailey
Deep Work – Cal Newport
Atomic Habits – James Clear
Tribe of Mentors – Tim Ferris
Art of Possibility – Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander
Sapiens and Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari

Novels:

Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott Card
Chaos Walking Trilogy – Patrick Ness
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons

Jeremy’s Goodreads Page

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PT41: Jeremy’s Favorite Podcasts and Books