Word: turian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years ago, when the Philharmonic, playing under Leopold Stokowski in Chicago, swung into Arcady Dubensky's energetic Fugue for Eighteen Violins. The trouble was that the whole percussion section, which had no part in the violin piece, began playing the next piece on its music racks-Khacha-turian's Symphony No. 2-which opens with a crashing, jangling blast. "We raised the roof," says Goodman. "The plaster fell." Stokowski allowed them to hammer away happily for eight whole bars before they skidded to a stop. It has never happened again...
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