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Being a classical musician or performer, it is a dream come true.

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It's one of those very, very gratifying jobs because you get to affect people on a large scale every time you perform.

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Our missions, at least for myself, it is to affect people,

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whether it is emotionally, whether it's spiritually, whether they have a spiritual experience after it.

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It takes years of study to develop the gift.

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It takes how many different generations of people, and when you have that responsibility on their shoulders,

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it's almost as if it's a duty to share that with everybody else.

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When you step on a stage, it's a perfect opportunity to share what composers wrote and their feelings,

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and it's almost as if you have a duty to do right by them.

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I guess show people this rich genre, and that's something I've been trying to ponder with for a long time.

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The answer that I'm coming to is just to try and give a very, very pure performance,

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and hopefully maybe they will just be exposed to it and somehow fall in love with it the same way we do.

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Tune in this Tuesday, October 3rd, at 8pm Eastern for a fascinating conversation with Ludovic Zalmor

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on the PianoPod's YouTube channel or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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The audio episode will be divided into two segments, with part one launching during the video premiere.

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Catch you this Tuesday.