I was working at a radio station when the Challenger shuttle disaster happened. A fellow announcer programmed "Nimrod" from the Elgar's Enigma Variations by way of a memorial, and I couldn't help but think of that tune again this past week during yet another American tragedy, the shootings in Orlando. And the recording below of this music by an English composer, played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Baremboim, who holds passports from Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain, seems to sum up the universality of music to share our joys and sorrows with one another:
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