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An Occasional Series: Insufficiently Adored '80s Records

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Phil Christman
Aug 20, 2023
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My friend Dan knows opera and musical theatre intimately. My friend Sorbie knows classical music, and particularly choral and organ music, and speaks of them as Merton might have spoken of God, less with knowledge than with an unknowing that bespeaks a harrowing and transfiguring intimacy.

That’s cool. I know the ‘80s.

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