Movements in EM major

摘要

THE SOUND OF an orchestral horn fills the hall as musicians warm up for an evening performance of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. The venue is a dramatic Beaux-Arts building that started life as the central post office of Buenos Aires. It perfectly illustrates Argentina's pendulum swings between liberalism and populism. In 1946 it doubled as a headquarters for the charitable work of the president's wife, Eva Peron. In 1997 the postal service was privatised during one of Argentina's periodic experiments with free markets and hard money. As that came to a grisly end in the default of 2001, bankruptcy also ensnared the post office's new owner, a conglomerate led by Franco Macri.