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  • What Makes It Great? Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

    Merkin Concert Hall, New York 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Featuring violinist Timothy Chooi and the Manhattan School of Music Camerata Nova The 1881 premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major got one of the most famous bad reviews in the history of Western music. Savaged as “music that stinks to the ear” in which the violin is “torn asunder” and “beaten black and […]