At the Thailand Cultural Center in Bangkok, the visiting Novosibirsk Theater of Opera and Ballet had put on a stunning performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, one of my all-time favorite compositions.

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The relative performance is a tool that I use in my daily column recommendations and it can be useful in any time frame.

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But I am also, for the first time in my life, working in an environment where my earnings are intrinsically linked to my performance.

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