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It was the year 1985 and I was in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England undergoing training at Thorn EMI Automation. I expressed my desire, to my host Alan McLean, to attend a western classical concert. He talked to one of his colleagues Keith Butler who was an aficionado of Western classical music. He took a couple of colleagues from India and me to a concert in a different town. The concert featured the Halle Philharmonic Orchestra. Unfortunately I don’t remember where the concert was held.
Among other pieces not so familiar to me, the main item was the “fate knocking on the door” symphony – Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in C minor – one of the symphonies I was most familiar with. So it was a great pleasure to listen to it live.
The concert hall was not one of the better ones or famous ones. When the symphony reached its crescendo the glass of a ventilator to my right rattled! It did little to reduce my enjoyment. On the contrary it is an incident that comes to my mind whenever I listen to the symphony again.
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