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If We Were Only One (Eleven Songs for 2011)
Around the time I decided to quit being a music critic (something I do every couple of years for good measure), the content of my “best of the year” playlists changed. They changed from being a record of my insatiable desire to find and consume new things to an attempt to more faithfully curate something smaller, personal, and, usually, thematic. I spent the first half of the year in a kind of self-imposed mental exile....
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Snow on Snow
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, / Snow on snow, / In the bleak mid-winter / Long ago. You probably know these lines, either from Christina Rossetti’s poem of 1871 or, more likely, Holst’s setting of them as a carol. I know them. I used one of them as title of a book, “bleak” altered to “deep” by the publisher, who thought the former too gloomy. Which it might indeed be. Rossetti was melancholic....
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