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To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.
Susan McClary
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Susan McClary
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 2
Musicologist
St. Louis
Missouri
Susan Kaye McClary
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