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TIL that a musical work was so disturbing that it almost caused a riot, with “yells for the music to stop, mixed with applause to hasten the end of the piece.” One performer recalled: “One woman … repeatedly banged her head on the front of the stage, wailing ‘Stop, stop, I confess.’”

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