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Coughing Through Shostakovich It was my first performance at Alice Tully Hall, and I couldn’t stop coughing. An orchestra playing Mahler might have muffled me, but I was one of only four people on stage, the second violinist spluttering through the second movement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor. The tickling in […]
January 2, 2012
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