Mary Esterheld wrote:

> What the throngs in the audience heard was a recording according
> to recent news reports.  Indeed the quartet did play but only those
> immediately surrounding them heard the live performance.

What puzzles me is this: if they used a recording because the instruments
couldn't be kept in tune due to the cold, but they still played live so
that proximate audience members could hear them, didn't that mean those
audience members heard both in-tune and out-of-tune music at the same
time?  (If not, then something in the musicians' explanation sounds less
than truthful.)

- seb

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