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July 23, 2005

'What was that thing the organist played when we went up?' Malcolm asked. 'Rather a nice tune, I thought.'

'It sounded like Hiawatha's wedding feast,' said Rhoda in a worried tone, 'Coleridge Taylor, you know. But I don't think it could have been that.'

'Mr. Lewis was improvising,' said Mrs. Swan. 'There were nearly a hundred communicants, I should think, and I dare say his thoughts wandered. I suppose the music wasn't really so very unsuitable, in a way; many Indians are Christians, aren't they?'

'These were Red Indians, surely,' said Malcolm.

They seemed to be getting into rather deep water, so Mabel changed the subject by mentioning that there was to be a procession at the eleven o'clock service.

Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels.

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July 18, 2005

Jean-Pierre leaned back in an arm-chair, eyes closed and finger-tips joined in a prayer-like attitude, listening to the jazz as if it had been Bach.

Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels.

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July 5, 2005

She had stood a pair of candles on the old cottage piano, and further tricked it out with a piece of music, the banality of which, together with a certain hypnotic sweetness, partly accounted for its being a performer's first choice when shaking the dust off a long-neglected talent.

Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm.

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