Steve Schwartz:

>There *is* another conductor I think much better (also a fellow alum)
>than his present gigs would indicate - James Paul.  I'm a sucker for a
>singing line, and he's got it in spades.

He has indeed!  He filled in at short notice to conduct a concert with
the West Australian Symphony that I attended last year.  The program was
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Elgar's Cello Concerto and Schumann's 4th.
I'd never heard of him before, but he is a *hell* of a conductor.

Richard Pennycuick
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