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Many conductors pursue hobbies of one kind or another, but Daniel Harding might be the only one who can boast being a pilot for Air France. Harding, who earned his commercial pilot license at age 40, says that he's "learned things about myself and conducting in a year that I didn’t learn in 29 years before as a conductor.”
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