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Description of  Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song (Personal Takes)

"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often askedindeed, I often wonder myselfwhy it is that I should always have had such joie de vivre in the face of the losses and dislocations I had to endure in my early years. The answer I always gave was that the warmth and security of my early childhood had a remarkable power and influence. This is certainly true. But now I have realized that there is another part to the answer. And that is music."from the introduction Who among us does not have a song that triggers vivid memoriesof jubilation, of belonging, of sorrow, of love? In Read more