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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2004/05

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:28:10 -0400


"... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following=20
days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin=E2=80=94preludes, etudes, waltze=
s, mazurkas.=20
The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler."

-Margaret Anderson (1886=E2=80=931973) American editor and memoirist
"The Fiery Fountains," part 2 (1951)

*The year was 1939, and Anderson was living in France. A dedicated though=20
amateur pianist, Anderson loved the music of Chopin.

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