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Music

J.S. Bach v. Joan Baez

15 September 2018

9:00 AM

15 September 2018

9:00 AM

I was at a funeral the other day at which the music was so inspiring that I struggled to feel sad. That’s fair enough, you may think — but the person in the coffin was my own mother.

This is a difficult point to explain in cold print, but there are reasons why I wasn’t grief-stricken at the death of the person who meant most to me in the world.

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