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Charlatan’s lament

Tuesday evening’s OSM concert promised sentimentality: Ravel, Chausson and Roussel. I was apprehensive — pastoral washes of feeling leave me yawning and reaching for the bottle. It is a self-preserving instinct for energetic turmoil over emotional accountancy, which seems kind of like death. Thankfully, the evening was full of surprises. The rest at the Gazette