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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2017: 21st Century String Quartet, The Hallé

    by 5:4 July 19, 2017 • 16:26
    July 19, 2017 • 16:26

    Here’s a suggestion: if a composer can’t summarise their programme note in fewer than a couple of hundred words, that’s a problem. Is that terribly controversial? Judging by what we were given at the Cheltenham Music Festival last Saturday, it is. This is not a local problem, though, it’s something …

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