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A Life Across an Ocean: Music, Migration, and the Courage to Begin Again

What if the most radical thing you could offer a friend was a plane ticket out of danger? That one gesture - sent during California’s wildfires - anchors a wider story about music, belonging, and building a life across an ocean. We sit down with Scott MacLeod, a Boston‑raised musician who moved to Spain three decades ago and carved out a career as an oboist and English horn player, and we trace the unlikely path from classrooms with no music program to a symphony seat and a city that knows his name.

We talk about the choices that shape a life: why a second master’s in music made sense, how an…

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