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I was initially happy to notice this line in a recent New York Times<\/em> review<\/a> of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Carnegie Hall:<\/p>\n

To a large extent, the power behind these surges comes from the lower string section and the trombones, who in the Bruckner symphony, in particular, seemed to form the ensemble\u2019s backbone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then got sad as I realized how meager our lower string section complements are kept due to monetary concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was initially happy to notice this line in a recent New York Times review of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Carnegie Hall: To a large extent, the power behind these surges comes from the lower string section and the trombones, who in the Bruckner symphony, in particular, seemed to form the ensemble\u2019s backbone. 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