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Why write about music?

ant to seem really clever when you’re next having a convivial conversation about music? Easy: proffer the aphorism that ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’, and your audience is likely to be reduced to a moment of stunned stupefaction. It’s a phrase that conveys the redundancy of writing about

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