The reason it turned out was a performance of one of my all time favourite pieces of music: the Shostakovich String Quartet number 8 in C minor.
The performance was in a small art gallery in town and was played by a quartet called Shostakovic Plugged who use amplified semi acoustic instruments.
What a wonderful and special suprise. That GLC is kind of ok.
The violinist talked prior to the performance and I was surprised to learn that the peice was dedicated to the victims fascism and that the four note theme, which has been in my head since I first heard it more than a couple of decades ago, is actually based on Dimetri Shostakovich's initials.
The music was beautiful, scary, devastatingly powerful and darkly disturbing. Even GLC said it wasn't awful.
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