In public you explain quite unabashedly that you’re a pacifist, but the reason for this is that, in private, you’re not. I don’t like the language of pacifism at all, because it’s so passive.

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The Black chamber music collective rarely charges for tickets, and they want audience members to “come as you are.” That goes for the ensemble’s musicians, too.