Some of the festival's performers included pianists George Lepauw, Winston Choi and Marta Aznavoorian; members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Avalon and Spektral quartets; Fulcrum Point New Music Project; Ensemble Dal Niente; Anaphora Ensemble; and Quintet Attacca.
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Anyhoo, the concerns of the South ( at least those for whom slavery was paramount-several of the states didn't secede until the fighting started ) were not slavery itself, but what the institution of slavery afforded them; the perceived attempts to shackle ( no pun intended ) their economy; and what they felt was a breach of the federal government's constitutional duties to states . to the southern slave-owners'mind, slavery was the fulcrum point the north could manipulate to its industrial advantage over the South's agrarian economy; this perception played a huge part in their defense of it-they wanted to maintain king cotton and felt the north / feds were biased against them.
