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was so pleased to receive all the Spanish themed pieces inside issue 124, and above all the by Manuel de Falla. This piece is relatively unknown amongst my musical friends, but it’s the reason I started to play the for my mother in the mornings when he practised, and she adored it (she loved Spain), so our family are very familiar with it. Sadly, my mother died three years ago, but the piece meant so much that we decided we had to have it for the entrance music to her funeral in the little church in Cornwall. Many attendees asked what it was.

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