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Aug 2021
14m 11s

Music in War

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How do you remember the tragic deaths in a war? Colin Lowther and Katy Blake tell the story of a musician who brought beauty to dark times by playing his instrument.

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Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\, via Wikimedia Commons

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