A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing

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Josephine Foster - An Die Musik (Schubert/Schober)

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From inside a dimly lit parlour, infested with pipe smoke and chintz wallpaper, an acoustic guitar is strummed gently by a man wearing a very wrinkled suit and sitting perched precariously on the edge of an uncomfortable armchair. A woman enters the room and immediately begins singing beautifully from a nineteenth century German romantic songbook. She is soon joined by another singer who starts moving throughout the parlour on tip toes, swinging a gigantic electric guitar unpredictably as she moves, knocking expensive trinkets from the shelves and upsetting a number of plant pots. Even as the bright, distorted stabs from the electric guitar overcome the room, the man plays on undeterred although now following the singers through the room as they dance erratically, ultimately leading him out the room's only window.

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