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They’re Playing The Death March On The Tube

by | 7th, February 2008

AS JESSICA Duchen notes: “More and more stations on the London Underground are piping out canned Mahler to calm us all down. Neil Fisher has an article about this in today’s Times. Is it about crowd control, banishing yobs or persuading us that our commuting lifestyle is pleasant?”…

“The glum-faced populace plodded en masse at the necessary snail’s pace towards the ticket barriers. And what were they playing over the Tanoy? Mahler’s Symphony No.1, slow movement.”

Yes, it is that one…



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