What good is music if it doesn’t help you deal with your reality? Recent events have brought this song to mind.

Edvard Grieg – Funeral March in Memory of Richard Nordraak (mp3)

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I played this piece many years ago, when I was a budding trumpeter in a brass ensemble in school. It’s stuck with me because it was both so somber and so beautiful. There is a fittingly agonized tone to it. It had been tucked away far in the back reaches of my mind until it was jarred by these events.

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