Word: besangon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shivering at the age of three when mother sings false"), Vandernoot first studied the flute, soon found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra of trees with a branch for a baton. While in the Belgian army, he entered the contest for nonprofessional conductors at Besangon, France, and finished next to last. After that he settled down to study conducting in earnest, soon got his own chamber orchestra and began winning critical cheers. Vandernoot is as famed for his girl friends as he is for his fortissimos. Says he: "I have given up my wife...