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AUDITION PREPARATION
028: Help, my audition’s tomorrow!
Nathan Cole
028: Help, my audition’s tomorrow!
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A Fistful of Mahlers
027: A Fistful of Mahlers
Nathan Cole
027: A Fistful of Mahlers
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026: Live from the Fischoff, Day 3
Nathan Cole
026: Live from the Fischoff, Day 3
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025: Live from the Fischoff, Day 2
Nathan Cole
025: Live from the Fischoff, Day 2
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024: Live from the Fischoff, Day 1
Nathan Cole
024: Live from the Fischoff, Day 1
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What does my future hold?
023: What does my future hold?
Nathan Cole
023: What does my future hold?
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An unfortunate break
022: An unfortunate break
Nathan Cole
022: An unfortunate break
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Nathan performing Brahms with Shlomo Mintz
021: The best orchestra audition concerto
Nathan Cole
021: The best orchestra audition concerto
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Ray Chen, photo by John Mac
020: Ray Chen – how insecurity leads to maturity
Nathan Cole
020: Ray Chen – how insecurity leads to maturity
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Joseph Bein of Bein & Fushi
019: Joseph Bein and the myth of the “Attic Stradivarius”
Nathan Cole
019: Joseph Bein and the myth of the “Attic Stradivarius”
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card trick
018: Fake it till you make it? How we learn music
Nathan Cole
018: Fake it till you make it? How we learn music
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Theater before start time
017: The show must go on – When conductors cancel
Nathan Cole
017: The show must go on – When conductors cancel
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Happy violin New Year!
016: Violin resolutions we’ve made, kept, and broken
Nathan Cole
016: Violin resolutions we’ve made, kept, and broken
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Audition helping hand
015: We all need an audition helping hand
Nathan Cole
015: We all need an audition helping hand
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Track from above
014: The very first steps in audition preparation
Nathan Cole
014: The very first steps in audition preparation
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Nathan with bandaged fingers
013: Violin fitness – staying healthy or playing hurt
Nathan Cole
013: Violin fitness – staying healthy or playing hurt
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Hugh Fink
012: Hugh Fink, playing Carnegie and writing for SNL
Nathan Cole
012: Hugh Fink, playing Carnegie and writing for SNL
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Nathan and Akiko in Paris, 2018
011: Orchestra tours – the good, the bad, and the ugly
Nathan Cole
011: Orchestra tours – the good, the bad, and the ugly
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