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Albie replies to Jim Tobin:
>>By the way, decades ago I attended a summer concert at Lewisohn Stadium
>>in New York (long gone), the program of which had promised Brahms' First
>>symphony. Just before the downbeat, the conductor turned to the audience
>>and asked if we would rather hear the Shostakovich Fifth. There was
>>strong applause. (Guess what music was on the stands?)
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>On an unrelated note to the RC debate: Cute as this gesture was... what
>about the people who actually went to the concert to hear the Brahms? Those
>who paid to hear what had been promised... any angry refund demands?
Probably not. This sort of thing happens all the time in reverse -- not
enough rehearsal time, usually, or the parts don't arrive in time. In
Cleveland, for example, Welser-Moest was scheduled to perform Schmidt's
Buch mit sieben Siegeln, and they fobbed me off with Mozart's Requiem
instead. I made a special trip to Cleveland from my home town of New
Orleans and paid through the nose to treat two friends and my wife, just
to hear the Schmidt. I didn't ask for *my* money back. I enjoyed what
was before me. It happens just often enough to jade me.
Steve Schwartz
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