Intonation IV (Lukas Foss)

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Lukas Foss: Tune-Up, or Play In-Tune?

During a pause for tuning during one of the popular Hollywood Bowl marathon concerts in the 1970s, conductor/composer Lukas Foss, obviously becoming impatient with the amount of time the tuning process was taking, remarked to some of the musicians in closest proximity to him, offered here as a

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