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  • Text: ...s singing children’s songs for OB to watch with his mother. Apparently he likes them, mostly because he seems to be a very musical child. It’s fun and challenging and is becoming part of our daily routine. And on that topic: routine is everything. It gives us a reason to get up in the m...
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  • Text: From the top: roasting chestnuts; gift baskets; one side of the market; dried fruits (delicious); and what’s a market day without music? Tomorrow then.
Day 172

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  • Text: I haven’t heard any of the new songs you mentioned and wish that I could hear the music of them. So, the young lady wants to learn how to swim. Well you can’t learn to swim setting out of the water. Ha! Ha! I’ll try to teach you and you’d better be a good pupil or else.
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, September 20, 1943

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  • Text: ...You can pay as a PayPal guest, and she will ship it to you. Remember I told you Craig had his study set up with all his musical instruments? Well here he is. I think this is his happy place. This is Oliver’s crawling track at home. It’s dark because all the doors along the corri...
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  • Text: ...It was one of the most memorable moments. At the end of the parade all participants meet in Hollyhock Lane for music and refreshments. I believe the parade is happening this morning but Craig and I are not going. All other parades and fireworks have been canceled this year along with pretty...
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  • Text: ...g it in Hong Kong, Poland and most recently in Myanmar: Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! Oli...
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  • Text: ...Anything German, any name German… people they named-they changed names and they didn‟t play music-German music. And they were awfully prejudiced about the Germans and then, of course, when it came to the Second World War they were even more so. Because of the cruelty of… we�...
Warner, Mary

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  • Text: ... attached book and played sounds that Craig mimicked on our piano. It was an interesting thing to watch. Oliver plays atonal music, sometimes almost melodic. Craig has high hopes of him being a wind instrument musician, but I think Oliver might be a pianist or a percussionist or maybe both....
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  • Text: You dress in white, eat fabulous buffet food on the pool deck and then dance and drink champagne for as long as you like. The music is live and the cruise performance troupe sing. The Costa Brava Our first White Night. Tomorrow Alcudia. See you then.
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  • Text: He then sat at Mick’s electric piano and tried to play something but ended up dancing to some recorded music. Look! He’s even got his hands right! If you haven’t already, go and get vaccinated. That’s all.
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  • Text: ...The crowd moves with shared purpose. Strangers hand out water bottles. A woman sways to gospel music. Lawn chairs are pulled out and pizzas ordered. Red, white and blue are the colors of the day. The line is a promise. Hours of standing, six feet apart, a few steps at a time, for the chance...
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  • Text: ...-tall tower, dominates the skyscraper-filled skyline. At its foot lies Dubai Fountain, with jets and lights choreographed to music. On artificial islands just offshore is Atlantis, The Palm, a resort with water and marine-animal parks. Sailing in through the haze. You can just see the Burj...
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