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Someone Must Have Sent That To Kemp, Or, Not Enough Friends

Posted on August 26, 2012, 2:55 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

The way I became familiar with the piece is a sort of a shaggy dog story of lonely young people leveraging what social assets they had, and making do with what was available.

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Sharing: Comin’ Home, Baby and The Hill (O Morro)

Posted on May 28, 2011, 4:28 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

All over my dorm I was hearing new things, or hearing old things in a new way. One of the most dramatic discoveries for me was courtesy of a guy a dorm block or two over who played the flute really, really well. I’m guessing I heard the sound of his instrument coming from his window, then traced it to the dorm room it came from, and, if memory serves, invited myself into his room.

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Posts Tagged ‘Debussy’

Someone Must Have Sent That To Kemp, Or, Not Enough Friends

Sharing: Comin’ Home, Baby and The Hill (O Morro)

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