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A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony

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It was 1970, and the composer John Adams was tripping on LSD. He was at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and he wandered into a rehearsal for Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy,” with the eminent pianist Rudolf Serkin sitting at a Steinway. Adams saw — or thought he saw — the piano begin to stretch …

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