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Sublime Nothingness: On 'The First Four Notes'
TO MARK ARMISTICE DAY in 1943, the New York Philharmonic played the first nine bars of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, paused for a minute of...
Eileen Reynolds
Eileen Reynolds is a freelance writer and bassoonist living in New York. She has written about the arts for publications such as The Believer, the Forward, Symphony, and the New Yorker website, and her work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered.