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Re Who owns the podium? Expectations have

changed, March 27 “A conductor doesn’t have to be a musician,” says opinionated conductor Tania Miller. What an odd statement. Not a musician! Then she implies that soprano Barbara Hannigan is not a musician even though she has sung in major productions in Canada and abroad. Hannigan is definitely a musician. I would not want to attend a choral or instrumental event if I knew the conductor was not a musician. Isabel Ward, Toronto