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First go read the poet and painter Joe Brainard’s incantational memoir “I Remember,” a dazzling sequence of evocative, single-sentence memories.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2020

Masur last month led the New York Philharmonic in the world premiere of Schnittke's spare, incantational Symphony No. 7, which the orchestra commissioned at Masur's insistence.

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