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Beyond Right and Wrong
A piece of music from the past can wake up your old self. You can see the old self when you first heard the music, the story of that time, the mood of that season, all ramping up into now, like back-flowing through time, all mixed feelings. If you can talk to your old self…
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Song of Corleone
Beloved songs are like old friends, and I ran into one the other day: the Song of Corleone from Godfather, Brucia la Terra. The song is a Sicilian ballad from the town of Corleone in Sicily. It was Michael Corleone’s favorite, as it reminded him of his first wife, Apollonia. That familiar lyric and melody, like a…