For this episode, I interviewed Jan Mittelstaedt, the director of the composition project In Good Hands, which is sponsored by the Cascadia Composers group out of Portland, Oregon, part of the National Association of Composers USA. Unfortunately, there was a problem with Jan's original sound which I did not notice until I was working on the production of this episode. The sound quality did not meet my standards, so I decided to go a different route with this episode. I made a transcript of my interview with Jan, which you can find at The Musicking Community website, or on our Substack page. In the rest of the episode, I will share why I personally find the In Good Hands project to be so important, which will involve some storytelling about my own musical history.

http://themusickingcommunity.com/2024/12/30/episode-19-the-in-good-hands-project/