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May 3, 2004 at 2:55 AM

Wow, Valentina Lisitsa is an amazing pianist, she soloed with us to do the second Shosty concerto. Wooooooo, cool.

We did Tchaik, Shosty, and the planet's slowest interpretation of Rimsky-Korsekov. I've used the third movement melody from "Scheherazade" for so many wedding processions, I think of the tempo as regal and perhaps a little brisk.

But no, the conductor took it slow. Our bride was drunk with a broken leg.

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