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Once upon a time, the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival was about mentorship: conveying musical tastes, knowledge and skills across a wide spectrum of generations and cultural backgrounds.At Orkney Springs from 1960 to 1978, the American Symphony Orchestra League sponsored summer workshops for conductors and students of conducting, mentored by artistic directors Richard Lert and, for one season, his friend Hans Swarowsky.Even those with little or no interest in classical music […]