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I keep thinking about something that Zolt\u00e1n Kocsis once said: \"When you lose your sense of initiative, you're done for!\"
\nAfter years of working in an orchestra, that's an important piece of advice!
\n\"Serving\" the clarinet brings a new task each day, but when it is done successfully, it rewards one with musical effects that no other instrument can produce!
\nIt's important to believe that miracles exist! <\/p>\n
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