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I'll be posting a You Tube version of my " Celebrate and Create with Yo Yo Ma" by Saturday, Jan 3, I hope - the idea is that each of my variations is an entry in a Scrapbook, each musical style tipping off some memory or other of my college years -

creating this piece  has made me realize that the seventies and eighties, when I was in college and grad school, were such a rich time of musical discovery!  So many musical forms and styles came into the collective consciousness again - ragtime!  klezmer!  I'd never heard of these things before!  So my rag and klezmer variations (on the theme of Dona Nobis Pacem) are preceded by a memory of the first time I encountered that incredible new music . . .

I'd love responses once my You Tube piece is up and running!  I'll post the link here when I have it.  Any other relevant thoughts and memories welcome as well . . .

eve