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I think no other form of music has influenced me more than the music of Christmas.
The ONE song I can play from memory on the piano is Joy to the World.
One of my earliest memories is watching Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors on television. And in an age when we had no computers, could not record or stream music, and had to wait a YEAR between showings, we listened intently and memorized what we could – catching the phrases we couldn’t reconstruct on the next time around, a year later. A master of theme, melody, repetition and the poetry of his lyrics.
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