I bewail our terrible effect upon the world –
yet here I am experiencing a sort of ecstasy as I listen
via my electric and electronic sound-system,
the World Wide Web and the BBC,
to a performance
(attended by hundreds of people,
and broadcast two weeks ago from a great hall
in the middle of a terrifying city)
of Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto
played on a state-of-the-art Steinway
by a Norwegian who has flown in specially,
with an orchestra of dozens of highly-skilled
players, each carefully dressed
and with a printed score...
I'll moan no more.
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