Among music's incredible powers is the ability to encapsulate a moment, or a feeling, and preserve it until the next hearing, whereupon it is released like the smell of mothballs from an old dresser, to use an unpleasant metaphor for a pleasant experience. Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for strings is a 15-minute piece that …
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