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but I will always clutch it as I did that wrinkled score because it had beauty in it that surpassed me. It had value and profundity that I can appreciate more when kept at bay. The dissonance that lingers after the first few measures never resolves. That is Romance in music, and that is Rachmaninoff, and that is what speaks of tears and sleepless nights where images and colors of that one face seem to run past you at the speed of sound. This is the music that I love.

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