Bridging music and sport for the Cultural Olympiad

How are ping-pong and violin-playing similar? If the tension at the starting line was a tune, what would it sound like? Tom Service talks to the musicians trying to bridge sport and art for 2012's Cultural OlympiadMusic and sport go together like … well, maybe not chalk and cheese, but not exactly like turkey and cranberry sauce. If you think about the greatest hits of classical music's sport-inspired repertoire, you very quickly find yourself scraping the bottom of a not very deep barrel: at ...

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