Word: symphar
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...what we write, when boiled down, amounts to but little more than saying that it was performed better or worse than it was the last time we heard it. Reduce any average newspaper music critique to its lowest terms, and you will arrive at something like this: 'The Symphar-monic Orchestra gave a concert last night in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Damfurt-berg, this week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture, and a very good one of those Handel concerti grossi. He took the first movement of Chykovsky's* Fifth Symphony faster than...
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