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Musings on harmony, melody and rhythm

4 June 2022

9:00 AM

4 June 2022

9:00 AM

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons Jeremy Denk

Picador, pp.384, 20

Every Good Boy Does Fine – a banal phrase that also just happens to be the key to limitless wonder. You may have learned it, like Tom Stoppard, as Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, or perhaps as the rather more tension-fraught Every Good Boy Deserves Food (whose sinister implication haunted more of my childhood than I ever confessed to my parents).

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