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Nobody's mentioned the BBC's weekend-long Get Carter festival which just happened. The review of the first concert in the Guardian, quoted on On an Overgrown Path today, opens with the report of the audience reaction to the performance by Nicholas Hodges and Oliver Knussen of the Piano Concerto--a standing ovation. Another incident that gives the lie to the notion that Carter's music was "constructed" with no concern for any public communication and always leaves an audience cold.
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