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CHRISTMAS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
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THE PENGUIN
ISSUE 56
DECEMBER 11, 2013
N E C ’ S S T U D E N T- R U N N E W S PA P E R
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Happy Holidays From The Penguin! Liz O'Neil says it best in her story on page 4: indeed, "'Tis the Season." No, not the season of holiday joy and gift-giving and caramel-gingerbread-peppermint everything, as Starbucks would love for you to believe-- although it's so close that we can almost smell it! No, we are in the thick of the real spirit of December that comes along with being a conservatory student. Many of us are trying desperately to juggle application deadlines, recordings, gigs, and finals, all while inching our way to the top of a mountain of papers. We have great news for you though-- the Penguin is bringing a little
humor back into your December grind. Check out Nick Tisherman's fictional piece about a botched BSO Pops concert, read Andrew Nissen's hilarious recollection of Australian traditions, or let Margie Apfelbaum's profile bring you a smile. This issue is abbreviated due to the short amount of time between Thanksgiving and winter break; however, we'll be back in full force for our February 6th issue (a whopping 20 pages!). If you've been waiting to make your Penguin debut, there's no better time than now to make your voice heard. Drop us a line at thepenguin@necmusic.edu! Stay warm and well, Penguins!
penguin CULTURE How to Practice
A GUIDE TO DOING EVERYTHING WRONG FOR THE HOLIDAYS
by ANDREW NISSEN First-year GD Trombone
If you’re anything like me, the idea of traveling home to family over the winter break is both an exciting and terrifying prospect. What begins as a joyful reunion of kin can quickly turn into an interrogation. “What happened to your nice shoes?” “Have you put on weight?” “When are you going to give me some grandchildren?” The possibilities to antagonize are seemingly endless, and the relief only temporary. A safe haven from the stress of familial interaction lies in private practice. Locking ourselves in a room away from external worry is what we musicians do best. Here follows a guide to maximizing your outcomes while home for the holidays. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will definitely come back to NEC a different musician than when you left. Enjoy your breaks and happy not-practicing, everyone!
1. MAKE SURE TO LEAVE AT LEAST SOME, IF NOT ALL, OF YOUR IMPORTANT MUSIC IN YOUR LOCKER AT SCHOOL. A common rookie mistake is to believe that you need to read music to be able to play it. It’s OK, I’ll forgive your trespass. In fact, I’ve never read a sheet of music in my life!
2. REMEMBER THAT IT’S NOT NECESSARY TO BRING ALL MUSICAL ACCESSORIES WITH YOU. In line with point one, you don’t need all that extra junk! Broke a string? Replace it with some copper wire from the hardware store! Need some valve oil? Tears of a jilted lover work fine! You don’t need a tuner and metronome to play well. Do you think Ashlee Simpson uses any of those things? Correct– she doesn’t use them, so neither should you.
3. PRACTICE ONLY BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 10PM-10AM. All good bohemian artists waited till sundown to let their creative juices flow. Preferably after consuming a few alcoholic beverages, get your kit out in the dead of night and let it rip. Nothing will receive more of a reaction than your bold statement of purpose as an artisté.
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4. ABANDON SCALES, ETUDES, AND TECHNICAL STUDIES. Are pieces made up of scales or easily identifiable motifs transposed through harmonic modulations? If you answered no, then give yourself a gold star! You don’t need to practice all that other stuff when you’re staring the Bach Cello Suite No. 2 down the barrel and nothing’s gonna stop you. Just dive in and play it through many times at breakneck speed without stopping. You’ll have it under your fingers in minutes.
5. FOR EXPERT LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT, LEAVE THE INSTRUMENT IN ITS CASE FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION OF YOUR STAY AT HOME. Most people underestimate the power of the mind. Why, once I learned the entire trombone part to Mahler’s 4th Symphony while also finishing a particularly difficult level in Halo 3. Remember, the best practice is the one done in your head. Your muscles will be very happy when you surprise them with Prokofiev's Chamber Symphony the week after you come back to school. They’ll let you know!
The Sound of Philosophy
by ISABELLA DAWIS First-year UD Voice
BRIGITTA KEEPS INTERRUPTING "DO-RE-MI"
♫ "When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything--" ♫ [music stops, play grinds to a screeching halt]
Brigitta: I thought you just said ONE WORD FOR EVERY NOTE? Maria: Yes, I did, Brigitta, that's right. Brigitta: But when you sing "a-ny-thing," you are using up threeee notes on ooooone word. I find that confusing. Maria: Well, sometimes we do that. Hm. Maybe I should have said, "one syllable for every note." Thank you for clarifying. Any more questions from the peanut gallery? Kurt: Please explain to me the vocal mechanism by which phonation is produced. Gretl: What exactly do you mean by "when you KNOW THE NOTES to sing?" Do you mean, when we know the syllables that go with each note? Or when we know the order in which to put the notes so as to form the song in question? Or when we know the pitches of the C major diatonic scale, excluding all other notes from different keys and tonal systems?
IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD, CARRIE UNDERWOOD RECENTLY STARRED IN A LIVE TELEVISION PRODUCTION OF THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
Marta: What does it mean to KNOW something? How can we separate knowledge from our own selves and our own existence? What is truth? Maria: I'm so glad you asked. I was hoping you wouldn't notice that I hadn't explained these things to you, but you're cleverer than I thought. Let's abandon this silly song, and let's try to find all the gaps in the two-minute music theory lesson I've just given you. After I've answered all your questions, we can really start at the very beginning, go back a few thousand years to Mesopotamia, and look at cuneiform notation... ...The Von Trapp children never sang again.
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'Tis the Season
by ELIZABETH O'NEIL Oboist '14
CHRISTMAS MUSIC, FESTIVE LIGHTS, AND...APPLICATIONS December 1st deadlines have passed. Thank god. Why is everyone
who’s graduating still stressed out? It’s because we don’t know what
yet apply: Check the application/recording requirements early on.
we’re doing next year! DUH! Please stop asking us if we are stressed
Start early. Record your tapes when it isn’t 30 degrees outside and
or what our plans are. We will continue to be in “unknown territory”
when your reeds are actually vibrating and sound half decent. Really,
until we find out.
do this. You won’t regret it.
Grad school is the obvious next step for many people here.
Here is a suggestion for those of you to whom this does not
Here is a suggestion for everyone else: Everything will be
People have been working their butts off in order to get pre-screening
okay. We tend to think there is a prescribed path one must follow (at
material recorded and applications submitted, while still trying to be
least in the classical world) in order to be successful and win a huge
a person and a student. Oh yeah, it’s finals season too, right? Some
orchestra job with the Boston Symphony or something of the sorts. But
people have even started applying for summer festivals! How many ap-
everyone is going to get there by different means. Who knows what’s
plications do we need to submit!? We haven’t even thought about how
going to happen– it’s the future! We can try to control as much of it
stressful February will be with so many auditions. Yikes.
as we are capable of, but we can’t control it all. Things happen for
a reason. Trust in that. Trust that NEC has put you in a position after
For those who aren’t in this boat yet, please relish in your free-
dom. The time will come for you to submit 20 million applications and
(insert how many years you’ve been here) to be successful in one way
pay 20 million dollars in application fees (why do they make us pay so
or another. Stop freaking out. Know we are all in the same boat. Take
much?). I’m not trying to scare you. Just be aware and plan ahead.
a deep breath. Go buy a holiday latte at Starbucks.
Pops Percussionist Botches “Sleigh Ride" LOCKHART CRACKS WHIP!
by NICK TISHERMAN Oboist '16
It’s that time of year again; Boston’s icy winds threaten to tear off your
past ten years combined.
face every time you set foot outside, Christmas decorations go up all
over the city, and the Boston Pops put their noses to the grindstone for
they just couldn’t get that jazzy variation out of their heads. However,
a month of holiday pops concerts. It’s a magical time of the year.
since that awful performance, all the Pops’ holiday concerts have been
spectacular, and the whip player hasn’t missed an entrance since.
But not all was magical last weekend at Symphony Hall,
when the slap stick player missed his entrance in Sleigh Ride, ruining the entire performance. In case you haven’t willingly listened to Sleigh Ride since December 2008, the sound of a whip is the biggest solo part in the entire piece. Leroy Anderson writes for the orchestra to drop out for an entire beat, leaving the whip all alone (ba-da dum, bum bum bum bum, bum bum bum BUM.....*CRACK* ba-daah, etc.).
There was a bare, silent gap in the Pops’ performance dur-
ing which maestro Keith Lockhart gave the percussionist a death-glare, which caused the musician to drop his instrument and miss the second whip crack. The concert inexplicably continued, and the percussionist picked up the clacker and nailed his last few entrances of the number, barely salvaging the experience for the audience.
After that performance, Lockhart demanded that the orchestra
rehearse Sleigh Ride again and again, to make sure the whip cracks were always in the right place. It is estimated that during this week, the Pops rehearsed the piece more than they had rehearsed it in the
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Musicians trudged out of the rehearsals, complaining that
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NEC Phil + Wolff
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 8 P.M., JORDAN HALL Philharmonia, led by Hugh Wolff, will perform several pieces from Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, as well as Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Berlioz’s “symphonie dramatique” paints Shakespeare’s tragic tale through the sounds of the orchestra. The Britten concerto captures the emotional themes of war and features Quan Yuan, concerto competition winner. Bryce Gillet, member of Philharmonia, says “It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Hugh Wolff as a part of the Phil at NEC...he conducts with an energy that is contagious.”
Britten: Ceremony of Carols
12/13, 7:30 P.M., CHURCH OF THE COVEN ANT (67 NEWBURY S T.) To launch into the holiday season, Erica Washburn will conduct NEC Chamber Singers and Concert choir in Britten’s well-known A Ceremony of Carols. Soloist Anneke Harger loves the “beautiful simplicity that comes about in all of Britten’s movements, as well as the subtle story it tells.” The program also features several other Christmas carols and a new arrangement of Silent Night by NEC composition student Kathryn Salfelder.
Natasha Brofsky in Recital
MONDAY, J ANUARY 13, 8 P.M., JORDAN HALL Natasha Brofsky, Professor of Cello at NEC since 2004, will join NEC family and friends, including Jessica Zhou on harp, Lucy Chapman on violin, Roger Tapping on viola, and Qing Jiang on piano. Brofsky reflects on her program: "I am excited to present two 21st Century works, Janusgesicht for cello and viola, and Choral for cello and harp. Two favorite romantic works bookend the program, ending in a flourish with Gypsy Rondo, the last movement of the Brahms piano quartet."
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m u a b l e f p A Margie
penguin SPOTLIGHT Article by Andrew Nissen | Photos by Kate L Photography
I sit in Margie Apfelbaum’s office on a very comfortable couch, and I ask if it’s good for sleeping on. “I don’t know,” Margie says. Though I’m inclined to believe her, there’s a hint of something else in her smile.
Margie is a benevolent, cheerful, hard-working stal-
wart of NEC. Now entering her third decade in service as the Administrative Director of Orchestras, she interacts with most of the instrumental students who come through the school. And she has an awesome couch in her office.
Aside from the couch, I ask, what’s a good part about
working at NEC? “It’s a really nice community of smart, talented people-- talent both in and outside of music. People seem to be well-rounded and articulate, and I learn something new just about every day. I also get to work with young people, so it keeps me young and energetic.” I wonder aloud if NEC has changed in the years that Margie has been here. “Tremendous-
tra department has grown very well since that point. The quality
ly,” she replies. “I think we’ve always had very, very talented
of what happens in the orchestra is just really, really high.”
students here, but – to use a sports terms – we have a very
deep bench now. There were years that the orchestra depart-
a baseball thing, I naïvely think? “Well, the term applies to any
ment had, like, three bass players and five violists; the orches-
sports. It means there's a lot of talent throughout the team. I'm
I ask Margie about the sports term "deep bench." Is it
a big sports fan.” Is she a Red Sox fan? “Of course!" she grins. "I watched one game at LAX before a red-eye flight, and an entire pizza place in the terminal had been taken over by Red PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDY HURLBUT
Sox fans. One waiter told us that the Red Sox weren’t going to win the World Series, and went on about how much he hated them. I really wanted to fly back as soon as the Red Sox won and just go…” (She makes a, ahem, colorful physical gesture that can’t be described here.)
Back to music-- what’s the worst excuse Margie’s seen
from a student for missing orchestra? “Oh! I get some pretty funny emails. I once had a student who said they couldn’t come to rehearsal because of the Boston Marathon. I asked, 'Are you running in it?’ and they said, ‘No, but I’d like to watch it.’" One of her craziest memories was witnessing a student show up drunk to a concert. She recalls, "The student enlisted a relative
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[My wife and I] try to get in touch with them and have them over on Christmas Eve for a nice meal.” So maybe she's a stickler for orchestra attendance-- but she gives away free food!
Margie and I talk for quite some time. She’s easy to
talk to, and we have many topics to talk about. There’s the time that Bruce Springsteen opened for her during the dedication of the Zakim Bridge (Margie sounded a shofar at the end of the ceremony, and Bruce played at the beginning!) We look at pictures of her beautiful puppy, Louie, who is half Australian Cattle Dog, half "not-quite-sure." Margie does a lot of photography and has a professional certificate in photography. Very into politics, Margie was always down at the State House around the time that same-sex marriage was in debate in Massachusetts. It’s very important to Margie, as it enabled to tell me that before the concert a bottle of whiskey had fallen on him, so that’s why he smelled like alcohol!" With a knowing smile, she says, "I’ve been doing this for a while, so I can tell when people are making stuff up.”
We talk about some of Margie’s dreams for NEC.
“I’d like to do a festival around the first week of April dealing with humor in music," she says. "I love comedy, and I’ve done some stand-up as a hobby. I think there are so many humorous pieces, and the festival could coincide with April Fools Day." Who knows-- maybe now that people are reading this article, they'll become interested in making it happen!
As for upcoming holiday plans? “My partner and I got
a new puppy this year, so we won’t be vacationing away during the break. One thing I try to do is invite students staying in town over the break away from family without anywhere to go.
her and her long-time partner Meridith to finally marry. We also talk about Margie’s resident town, Watertown, which became world-famous for all the wrong reasons this past April as television viewers across the world witnessed police cars and military tanks close in on her neighborhood. “As horrible as the whole thing was, it really was an amazing time in Boston's history. What terrorists don’t realize is that they galvanize people to care more for one another. The response by everyone at NEC was so amazing. It just showed how thoughtful, articulate, and soulful everyone is here.”
As we part, Margie leaves me with one final gem: “I
say that one of the reasons I love what I do is because I’m able to get rich. It’s not measured by money, but by the experiences of my life, the people I get to meet, and the places I get to go. Every time we have a concert here, I watch the transformation from infancy to full-growth. It’s amazing.” I think so too.
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penguins CELEBRATE The Many Holidays Under One Roof EMBRACING DIVERSITY WITHIN OUR CONSERVATORY
by RALEY BEGGS Second-year MM Guitar
Coming out of Thanksgiving this year, I’ve had the chance to con-
ternational ignorance until my first semester here, and even though
sider all the things for which I am thankful. I’m very lucky, and have
it was humiliating, I think now I’m a bit more aware of the customs
been given opportunities that most can only dream of. Although
of others. To students at NEC, differences in international customs
Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated exclusively by Americans, the
are intuitive; it’s a non-issue. Unfortunately, outside the walls of the
internationality of NEC has given me a new perspective on this time
conservatory, unawareness of cultural diversity still persists.
of year as well as the world at large.
upon us. This is the time of year that is recognized and celebrated
Leaving one’s country is an incredibly brave thing to do; I
Along with the end of the semester, the holidays are now
have the utmost respect and even
the whole world over, each culture
jealousy for those who are living
branding traditions to look for-
their lives abroad. Even though
ward to. Music, already the sig-
I have not left my home country,
nature of the cultures themselves,
being surrounded by those who
often serves as the cornerstone
have at NEC has given me the
on which these holiday traditions
sensitivity to the challenges of
are built. Just hearing the music
living abroad. NEC has exposed
of holidays transports us vividly to
me to so much of the world by just
them; it carries incredible power.
attending school, and for that I am thankful.
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Americans have a reputation for being naïve, especially
from immersion in the holiday traditions of home, but it will be a time in life you will always
in regards to the reality of other countries. Perhaps this comes as a
remember. Because in the end, we don’t remember the times we
result of shopping centers and restaurants appearing the same from
were comfortable, but instead the times we were not. The times we
sea to shining sea, a homogenous feel that stretches over a country
stepped out of our comfort zones and into a world we never knew
the size of a continent. Though it may be convenient to order a
existed. Later, we will call these moments of discomfort nostalgia.
hamburger in Boston and Los Angeles and expect the exact same
lunch, it creates a nation scared senseless of something that stands
songs you sang in December as a child, sing them now with might.
out from the crowd. Embarrassingly, the first year I spent here I was
America suffers from a mild and childish ignorance to culture, and
surprised to find out that not everyone left town to visit family for
it’s our job as musicians to expose anyone unfamiliar with such cul-
Thanksgiving as I had grown so accustomed to. Similarly, I was
tures to their wonder and beauty. The diversity we have within ouf
surprised to discover holidays recognized by some of my peers that
conservatory is truly one-of-a-kind, and through music we all have
were not a part of my own calendar. I was unaware of my own in-
the power to share and experience it in the most potent of ways.
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So wherever you call home, transport us there. Whatever
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An Emu Up a Gum Tree
by ANDREW NISSEN First-year GD Trombone
A WALK THROUGH TOPSY-TURVY AUSTRALIAN HOLIDAY TRADITIONS
December: the month of holidays. Mention of it conjures up an
war. In my favorite part of the vidoe, my five-year-old self screams,
entire backlog of memories of hot chocolates, scarves and mittens,
“Hey, that’s cheating!” as my grandfather takes sniper shots out
and perhaps warm nights indoors by the fire in defiance of the
the window from the relative safety of the inside of his bedroom.
cold outside. At least that’s what I think it does for you! Where I
This is the sort of diversion you can afford to have when it’s 110º
come from, December is a month of the outdoors, of late sunsets
outside on Christmas Day in Sydney.
and early rises, BBQ and cold drinks, tank tops, and flip-flops.
Just as my perception of the holiday season is informed mostly
window in warmer climates. Poor, suffering Santa still labors away
by second-hand information from Hollywood and friends, so then
underneath mountains of woolen fabrics. Christmas pines are still
would your perceptions be of the land far, far away known as
erected, and often inexplicably adorned with fake snow. Chestnuts
Australia. Allow me to give you a first-hand introduction as to what
are roasted, turkeys are consumed, and eggnog flows abundantly.
Still, not all traditional Christmas ideas are thrown out the
it’s like to experience a Christmas
Ever-popular Christmas songs survive
down under. (Incidentally, flip-flops
intact. Well, almost all of the time.
are not known as such back home.
We call them thongs. It makes
the late 1980s to ‘Australian-ize’ the
sense if you think about it.)
lyrics to many popular carols. Tunes
such as “Hark, the Herald Angels
Like any child growing
A popular push was made in
up in the nineties, I got most of my
Sing” have survived fully as they have
education from The Simpsons. The
no reference to colder weather, but
very first episode of the show is a
tunes like “Jingle Bells” had all North-
sweet story about how the family
ern Hemisphere references removed
receives their dog one Christmas;
and replaced with Australian sound-
this was likely my first exposure
alikes. Sometimes the results are
to the phenomenon of a Northern
better than others; take “The Twelve
Hemisphere winter. A couple of things passed through my mind as I watched the episode:
A. What is this magical substance they refer to as snow? B. Why are they all walking around with lots of clothes on-- isn’t Christmas supposed to be hot? C. Where’s the emu?
Days of Christmas,” for instance.
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I’ll get to that last one soon, but the other questions an-
swer themselves. Indeed, when I finally did experience a Northern Hemisphere winter for the first time at 20 years old, I couldn’t quite
After the refrain, “On the ___ day of Christmas, my true love sent to me," the Australian version goes: An emu up a gum tree
7 koalas climbing
2 pink galahs
8 possums playing
3 jaibirus
9 wombats working
4 kookaburras
10 lizards leaping
5 kangaroos
11 numbats nagging
6 platypuses
12 parrots prattling
shake the nagging feeling that I was walking through a real life
I remember singing this in elementary school, but I still don’t quite
movie. None of it seemed like it could be real, as I’d only ever
know what a jaibiru is!
experienced it through the lens of the television.
the cold with family this holiday season, spare a thought for those
My family video collection contains footage of a particu-
So, as you sip your warm drinks and curl up away from
larly legendary Christmas from when I was a boy. A mischievous
suffering under the tyranny of a shining sun and endless beaches
uncle had gifted my siblings and me with Super Soakers that year,
in the Southern Hemisphere. I’ll be home in Sydney for Christmas
and he brought along some of his own to make things interesting.
for the first time in three years this year, and I have lots of new
What started as three children playfully soaking three burly adults
cousins – I think I know what Santa is bringing them all this year!
(my two uncles and my grandfather) shortly turned into a full-on
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penguins GET CREATIVE THE FIRST COMPOSER by NESLIGÜL KAYA Continuing Ed. '14 Enheduanna—is my name. I lived four thousand years ago, on the land between Euphrates and Tigris Mesopotamia gave birth to me, just like she gave birth to Sumer and Akkad civilisations. First, there was Sumer; the civilization flourished six thousand years ago…
Painting by Yuri Shtapakov
Sumerians were the first people to invent writing,they used clay tablets. Did you know that? Then came Akkadians. I lived in the time of the Akkadian Empire. Many people were bilingual at the time; they spoke both Sumerian and Akkadian. Although I did not have to, I chose to learn Sumerian. And I wrote poetry. I—Enheduanna—am an Akkadian princess and the high priestess of the Moon God Nanna in the Sumerian city of Ur. I composed forty two hymns…
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I am the first composer in the world, that you know of. Enheduanna—is my name. Mesopotamia gave birth to me.
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THE ONCOMING STORM
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by NATALIE ALPER-LEROUX Violist '16
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1) Soprano soloist Nataly Wickham takes a bow after performing Britten's Les Illuminations song cycle with the NEC Chamber Orchestra. 2) "China's Louis Armstrong," Yazhi Guo, joins the NEC Percussion Ensemble for their November 24th concert. 3) Saxophonist Kevin Sun performs music of Luciana Souza (M.M., '94) during her teaching residency. 4) The NEC Symphony reflected in the ceiling of Jordan Hall during their November 13th concert. 5) Xiang “Angelo� Yu works with acclaimed Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos during his November 18th masterclass. 6) The cast of The Emperor of Atlantis performs at the Somerville Armory. 7) David Loebel with soloist Elina Akselrud after performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1.
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