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 | | My father, like Ives, was drawn to the contemplative philosophy of the New England trancendentalists, particularly Thoreau, whose modesty, economy and fierce independence he admired, even when he could not always emulate it. |
 | | My “Concord”, however, is Concord, New Hampshire, eighty miles to the north of the Concord of Ives’s epic piano sonata. |
 | | The Mount Washington, an old mailboat, emits a few lazy groans from its horn, prelude to a long, shakuhachi-like melody for the oboe. |
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