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Posted at 10:30 AM ET, 02/03/2012

Link: Eschenbach and NSO offer a lot of heart, and some crackling Beethoven

By Anne Midgette

In my review of the NSO concert last night (Christoph Eschenbach leads National Symphony Orchestra in emotional program) I touch on what you might call the line between art and artifice: the idea that presenting actual emotion in performance is not always as moving as figuring out how to communicate that emotion to an audience. What are your thoughts?

By Anne Midgette | 10:30 AM ET, 02/03/2012

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