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"ref": "1810, original 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheard's Calender",
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"text": "Much of what Ms Sorkin performed was forswunk, and on the heavier side of angst as in Kaddish (in memory of Anna Frank) by Sokolow, which walked hand in hand with Messiaen's score into the deep blue sea where they solemnly sank, as did my spirits.",
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