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    Apr 14, 2022 3 minutes

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    A welcome addition

    A carefully thought-out concert programme reaches its climax and is greeted by justified acclaim, only to be followed by an often trite, if popular, addition that totally deflates the mood. I would be more than happy if I never heard an encore again! But then I have to acknowledge an exception, and like Richard Morrison’s example (Comment, April) it was given by an octogenarian

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