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It's that time of year, when the fictionalized retelling of the von Trapp family and in particular, Maria von Trapp, escape from Austria as it is annexed by Nazis Germany, comes to prime time. This ...

Now, in this Christmas Octave, we are invited to join in their eternal song as we venerate the Christ Child and draw close to the Holy Family. One beautiful way to do this is to make space for silence ...

A personal essay about the silence after the Los Angeles fires and what it means to hear music again, by 18 year old Zacharie Sergenian for NPR member station KCRW.

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