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By page ninety of Rachel Joyce’s The Music Shop, I had to stop reading to find a pen and pad to note the music.  Each time Frank, the music shop owner recommended a song to  one of his patrons, I wanted to hear it.

Not only a story of true love and redemption, The Music Shop was a resource for old favorites as well as new classics.  Now I have new playlists.  How many of these have you heard lately – or ever?

• Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
• Spirit in the Dark – Aretha Franklin
• Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5
• Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic
• Barber’s Adagio for Strings
• Waltz for Debby by Bill Evans

When Frank courts Isle Brauchmann with his music lessons, I found a list for the next time I can’t sleep on a plane:

• Chopin’s Prelude No. 15
• Heyr, Himna Smiour with the Iceland Chorus
• Brahm’s Piano Concerto No. 1
• Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven
• Perotin’s Beata Viscera
• Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata
• Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

And, the most redeeming of all – Handel’s Messiah.

Although Frank would have preferred my listening to vinyl, my music is on iTunes.