US string quartets clean up all prizes in Osaka
mainThe Aizuri Quartet took first prize, worth 3m Yen (£21,000).
The Ulysses quartet were second with 1.5m Yen (£10,500) and the Viano Quartet were third with 1m Yen (£7,000).
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They evidently had the biggest cleavages.
Miaouw!
Rude. Rethink your attitude.
Sounds like you don’t think the way they play is important.
Nothing wrong with a nice bit of flesh, as Khatia and Yoojar have amply demonstrated. For those with offended sensibilites, the musicians could be obscured behind a curtain to eliminate any confounding of musical performance aessessment by voluptuous bodies.
…or they could just listen.