[lit-ideas] Some years ago ...
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On a December 22nd some years ago, Viennese devotees of new music made
their way to a concert hall in Vienna for the most significant concert
of the year. It was four hours of music, new music to their ears. The
theatre was unheated, the orchestra was under-rehearsed, and the
soprano soloist had a bad case of stage-fright. The whole experience
led one listener to comment later that 'one can have too much of a
good thing - and still more of a loud'.
The 'some' years are, to be precise, how many? And what made this
concert so significant?
Some years later, on another December 22nd, four musicians gathered in
a recording studio to make the first recordings of a group whose name
accurately reflects the type of music for which they were to become
world famous. (They had played and recorded together before; but, as
stated, these are the first recordings to be released under that
iconic name.) Can any of you state which year that was, and who the
musicians were - or at least what the name of the group was?
Chris Bruce,
celebrating, in
Kiel, Germany
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