Word: munchian
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French-born Conductor Charles Munch, his thick, white hair flying in the musical breeze, led his crew through Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, Walter Piston's Sixth, and, in a specialty that every Munchian audience outside Russia has heard and heard again, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2. At the end, the crowd let loose an eight-minute tumult, only stopped temporarily when the orchestra went into a rare encore-Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. Said a leading Russian fiddler: "It's the greatest orchestra in the world...
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