Slow…

Play the first movement so that flies drop dead in mid-air and the audience leaves the hall out of sheer boredom.

Ben Ratliff quoting Shostakovich on how to play his String Quartet no. 15.  In Every Song Ever, chapter 2, Past Present Future: Slowness.

Last week we played I Know You Rider slow.  Slooow.  And it was Goooood.