The conductor brings a new vision to the Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic, striving to connect new listeners to classical music. (from Palm Springs Life)
Lee Mills, the new executive director of the Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic, knows how to bring a community together.
“You can bring 2,000 people in one space, and it doesn’t matter their political affiliation or their religious background or what sports team they root for,” the 37-year-old says. “None of that matters, we can all come together and have a shared experience.”
For Mills and the rest of the Coachella Valley, that shared, blissful experience is music. But before becoming an award-winning conductor, working with orchestras all over the world, and eventually ending up in the desert, Mills was just a college student with a D+ in physics.
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