Delivering doses of sweet harmony
The Boston Globe
As musicians from the Longwood Symphony Orchestra played selections from Dvorak’s “American Quartet,’’ 50 Vietnamese immigrants, mostly in their 70s and 80s, sat in plush chairs at a Dorchester day-care center for the elderly, listening raptly. Tears welled in Mary Nguyen’s eyes. Never in her 72 years had she heard such music, she said…
During a minuet, a pair of clowns named Snarfie and Angus chimed in with noisemakers embedded in their gloves; the musicians took it in stride. “I think that was how Mozart originally intended it,’’ said Laura Rosow, a Harvard medical student and violinist…..
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