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Mr. Rouse's string repetitions at the beginning are bright and hard; their textures are pierced by raucous, virtuosic quasi-bird calls from the two winds. Soon the music draws back into a kind of nightscape, flute and harp singing against strings in close harmony. At the end, the repetitive figures
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