Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. (Leonard Bernstein)

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

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