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#320 Benjamin Zander- Awaken The Possibility in Others, A Conductor's Guide to Leadership

What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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I Was Beaten by the Prefix

I was at a tough English boarding school called Upingham. I got a big scholarship because I was a good musician and they wanted musicians. Musically, I played. I sang. But it was a very tough school in the old traditional English way. One day I was beaten by the prefix. That means they took a hard shoe and you would bend over. And so that was a pretty serious thing. The reason I was beaten on one occasion was because I was facetious. It's not a healthy atmosphere for a young person to grow up in. Now, all of that is gone. None of that exists anymore in England. We were brought up this way. At 15, I

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