Letter: Naked humour
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Apart from the name of the orchestra itself, surely this was provided by their playing in the nude. How else could they have offered "a naturist's challenge to the blended mode of tone production" in the "long preludal strophe of the concerto's slow movement"?
Michael Tearle
Cardiff
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