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On the beauty and necessity of music, especially in times of disaster, conflict and crisis

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On the beauty and necessity of music, especially in times of disaster, conflict and crisis

As if finding the time to read wasn’t hard enough, working out what book to pick up next can be a nightmare. In bookshops and libraries, browsing through book reviews and looking at that …