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Saturday, November 13, 2021

The Moscow Philharmonic on tour in Vienna

 On a tour in Vienna, the first chair violinist for the Moscow Philharmonic gets to play with a Stradivarius violin.

"I don't see what the big deal about it is," said the 'new violinist' who joined just before the Philharmonic left on tour.

"Let me put it in terms you can relate to," said the first chair, "Imagine you got to shoot a prisoner using Felix Dzershinsky's own pistol..."

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