018: Fake it till you make it? How we learn music

When it comes to getting all those notes, rhythms, dynamics, and articulations under your fingers, you’ve got to use every trick in the book. In this episode, we talk about how we get through our stacks of orchestra music.

Of course, we need different strategies depending on whether we’re trying to revive an old friend, or tame a world premiere. Fakery may just find its way in there somewhere…