Breath
Radiolab
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How Do You Escape That, or How Can You?
This is the piece moto perpetua, which was this violin solo known to be one of the hardest passages in classical music. In the 19 sixties, raphael mandez came across it and played it for trumpet. This version is a version by wintond marcellus. And so circular breathing then becomes this way of, ok, if this is my limitation, who am i, or what am i if i don't have that limitation? If i can kind of sustain my breath indefinitely?
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