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Political Rites

For the past 80 years, I have started each day in the same manner,โ€ Pablo Casals told his biographer when he was 93. โ€œIt is a sort of benediction to the house. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach.โ€ Then, Casals would stretch his legs, admire the dew […]