Encore
Before the Encore: How the Return Became a Concert’s Closing Gesture
Learn how the encore’s familiar exit-and-return ritual shapes a concert’s final scene, and what to listen for when the…
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Encore
Examine the closing choices that give a concert its final shape.
Our point of view
A concert is more than its biggest moment
The order, the spaces between pieces and the way performers shape a work all matter. We look closely at those choices without treating one kind of concert as the measure of all the rest.