Three months later after giving his TED Talk in Adelaide about midi vs. acoustic, when he retired to his hotel room he played back the concert from Koerner Hall and when it got to bars 223 – 267 he heard the orchestra move in exactly the kind of emotional condition he had hoped for and recalled the rehearsal and the words of the violist.
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Conductor: Bars 223 – 267 remember the composer wanted to call attention to dystopia, think pollution, human rights, animal welfare.
Viola player: Isn’t that external mess inside each of us insofar as we pollute ourselves and mismanage our inner resources? The composer was just making a metaphor, no?
Conductor: Just play it like you hurt.