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Have you ever looked at Valvert and thought, “Hmm what if instead of the justice system, their conflict was focused on… *checks notes* classical music?!”

Well, you’re in luck because we are putting them in a situation (orchestra)! Featuring conductor Valjean and concertmaster Javert!

Valvert steal for @lesmisshippingshowdown! Maglistine is also there because I miss them :((

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Rating: Okay so like the multichapter fic will eventually be explicit, but this chapter is very much SFW. Like probably G-T rated. But the fic as a whole is E rated.

Thank you to the lovely @little-linda for beta reading <3

Philharmonic Hall Szczecin, Poland - Barozzi Veiga

The New Year's Concert at Vienna Philharmonic

Andrew Carnegie was a generous supporter of the New York Philharmonic Society, meeting its annual deficits in its early years. One year the society’s secretary came as usual to Carnegie’s mansion, this time requesting $60,000. Carnegie was just about to sign the check when he paused and said, “No, I’ve changed my mind. Surely there are other people who like music enough to help with their own money.” He then told the secretary to go out and raise half the necessary amount, promising to match it with the other half when this had been done.

The following day the secretary was back at the Carnegie mansion, announcing that he had raised the requisite money. Carnegie commended the man’s enterprise and wrote out and signed his check for $30,000. As he handed it over he said, “Would you mind telling me who gave you the other half?”

Rest in peace 🕊️

Kushnir was born in Tambov, central Russia, where his father Mikhail was a pianist and educator, and his mother a music school teacher. He started playing piano at the age of two and, at just 17, gave a remarkable two-and-a-half-hour concert featuring the 24 preludes and fugues by composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Later that year, he was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, where classmate Julia Wertman says he cultivated a “dissident image”, often wearing a shabby coat and black clothes, with a half-litre bottle of vodka sticking out of a pocket. Asked in a 2005 interview what composition he would never perform, he replied: "The Russian national anthem."

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