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You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.
Pauline Oliveros
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Pauline Oliveros
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: May 30
Died: 2016
Died: November 24
Accordionist
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Houston
Texas
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My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.
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The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].
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Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.
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[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.
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Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.
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