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:I remember also reading (I think it was even in the Fay biography) that during the first performance of the fifth symphony, in the slow movement, members of the audience were audibly and loudly heard weeping. There's something in his music that connected directly to the suffering of the people who were most affected by the regime's excesses. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 19:25, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
:I remember also reading (I think it was even in the Fay biography) that during the first performance of the fifth symphony, in the slow movement, members of the audience were audibly and loudly heard weeping. There's something in his music that connected directly to the suffering of the people who were most affected by the regime's excesses. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 19:25, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
::Wasn't the 2nd piano trio also about a friend's death?
::You mean to say you ''don't'' weep during the slow movement of the 5th. You have no soul.:) For years a home-recorded cassette containing the 5th and 10th in my Walkman was my guard against travel sickness on my frequent 2 hour commutes between Hobart and Sydney. They were proof that there were people feeling more rotten than I did. That long first movement of the 6th gets to me too. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 21:12, 27 March 2009 (EDT)