Audience members at Benaroya Hall typically refrain from clapping between movements, a 20th-century custom spearheaded by elite critics and concertgoers bothered by commoners who felt the music so strongly they couldn’t help but cheer.
But when the Seattle Symphony brought a string quartet to the Washington Corrections Center for Women this week, the inmates in attendance didn’t just clap between the movements of String Quartet No. 3 in D Major. They stood and erupted in applause.
It’s the way Beethoven
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