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The disastrous scenes at the much-hyped Fyre festival in the Bahamas were yet another example of how festivals can go horribly wrong

As the huddled masses of Instagram models, aspiring tech bros, and washed-up rappers finally escape Fyre Festival’s pathetic attempt at a luxury music festival in the Bahamas, many of its disgruntled attendees have used social media to paint the event as a festival disaster. The ensuing viral sensation – fueled by schadenfreude – would suggest that this Caribbean catastrophe is as bad as it gets for a festival. That is not the case. In the 60 years that music festivals have been a prominent factor in western youth culture, some combination of negligent planning, inclement weather, freak accident and human violence has caused a steady stream of unfortunate incidents at music festivals. They range from comical nuisances to horrific tragedies, and a look back offers a timely reminder of how bad things can get when the pursuit of pleasure devolves into disaster.

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To be beautiful, musicianship requires perfection. Magician, Nick Wallace, said his proficiency for sleight-of-hand tricks comes from years of training on the violin, where miniscule inaccuracies in time or placement are loud and clear.

Perfection, of course, requires hours and hours and years of training. Adding to the burden, classical musicians must adhere to centuries of high expectations and virtuoso performances, to which they’re compared. Classical musicians are often tightly wound.

Wisterium Music is two classically trained musicians, Jennifer Molinaro and Celeste Konopka, unwinding; blazing new musical trails with their well-instilled, classical devotion to perfection and beauty leading the way.

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