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In the fall of 2016, a performance of Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra took on a special significance. With their regular concerts cancelled in the midst of a bitter contract dispute, Pittsburgh musicians put on a free public performance, joined by brass players from Boston, Cleveland, and Philadelphia, who had recently concluded their own strike.
