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Follow Your Curiosity is a podcast about creativity—how it works, how it shows up in real life, and how people find their way into it.
Each episode is an unscripted, curiosity-driven conversation. We start at the beginning and see where the story, the connections, and the questions take us.
Twice a month, you’ll hear in-depth conversations with people from all kinds of backgrounds about their creative lives: how they got started, what shaped them, and what they’ve discovered along the way. Some guests are widely known, others less so—but all of them offer a window into the many different ways creativity works and what it means to the people living it.
In the alternating weeks, you’ll hear short Creative Pep Talk episodes with ideas, tools, or reflections you can take into your own creative life.
Following my own curiosity sometimes leads me into unexpected places—including conversations connected to Doctor Who and the people who bring those stories to life, in front of and behind the scenes.
Every episode stands on its own, so you can start wherever you like.
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Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Today’s guest has been an important part of my life, and a big influence. A composer of music for choir and handbells, a respected festival conductor, and a former professor of music and director of choral studies at Bucknell University, he’s my college choir director, Dr. William Payn. I spent four years singing for him in Bucknell’s Rooke Chapel Choir, where I learned more than just great choral music. We talked about his history with music, from childhood on, the experiences of conducting vs. composing, how to encourage people to do more than they think they can, and how a particularly memorable choral performance at the American Choral Directors Convention—a rarefied experience for us all—came to be.
Listen to us sing Aaron Copland's "In the Beginning," and two of Dr. Payn's compositions, at the links at fycuriosity.com, and join the conversation on Facebook and Instagram! You can rate and review the show here. Thanks!
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