The Philadelphia Orchestra's 40th anniversary tour of China was moving on to Macau on Friday June 7, 2013 - its last and glitziest tour stop - when a handful of musicians and orchestra executives on the early-bird flight from Beijing were stuck on the tarmac due to heavy rain. The takeoff was delayed six hours.
Nonetheless -.
"Our musicians would like to offer you a musical surprise," announced orchestra president Allison Vulgamore to the marooned, disgruntled passengers.
Despite cramped conditions and the dry airplane acoustics, a quartet of Philadelphia string players uncased their instruments and launched into Dvorak's String Quartet No. 12 - a therapeutic performance that met with wild applause from fellow passengers. MORE HERE
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