Then a piano was wheeled out onstage for the Tchaikovsky Concerto (the First, of course, not the Second, which has always ...

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Childhood Illuminated” at the Petit Palais.

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Edgar Vincent, the first (and, as it happens, the last) Viscount D’Abernon, once remarked that “An Englishman’s mind works best when it is almost too late.” He died in the dark days of 1941 and so did ...