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Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness a familiar ritual: Eager first-time students squeak on a clarinet, suppress giggles at the noises coming from the tubas and zealously hit a bass drum a little too hard.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/opinion/teach-music-better.html
The country must defend itself, especially now, so zealously, so firmly, and desperately.