excerpt from 'In Pursuit of Music' pp. 162 (73 words)
excerpt from 'In Pursuit of Music' pp. 162 (73 words)
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But arriving in Kabul reminded me of the old film of Lost Horizon – a Shangri-La set in a peaceful plateau surrounded by forbidding mountains and approached through the narrowest of ravines. Its modern airport was a complete surprise, presumably another prestige gift from the Russians, judging from the strains of Tchaikowsky’s violin concerto that poured forth incessantly from the loud-speakers, at a constantly fluctuating pitch. (Poor David Oistrakh, I thought!) |
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