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Getting Ready to Play a Little Mozart

I’m getting ready to play the Mozart Oboe Quartet for the 69,000th time. That might seem like an exaggeration, but with the number of times I’ve practiced it, it might not be. This is not a complaint. I love the piece, but it presents some significant new challenges for me—completely different from the ones I had when I first played this piece.

I was thi…