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Classicalite's Five Best: Musical Married Couples
Chemistry. You've either got it or you haven't. So one would think that musicians who live together and play together would have it. And one would think right, in many cases. It's an interesting phenomenon and we thought we'd explore it in a little more detail with these five interesting case studies. Sounds like couples therapy? Far be it from us to say. Gareth Davies, London Symphony Orchestra Flautist-cum-Author, Talks Titanic Tour
It is a part of local lore that the London Symphony Orchestra missed the maiden and only sailing of the Titanic which they were to have taken to make the first American tour of what was billed as the "world's best orchestra." Though they avoided that fateful voyage, the 85 members of the orchestra still had what was for the time an adventurous trip, spending much of April 1912 living on a train in a whistle-stop tour of America as far west as Milwaukee before they returned to New York to sail back home.
