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This memoir is a highly personal book about a couple's music career with many different choral groups and symphony orchestras. This readable book demonstrates their love of music and specifically the great choral repertory of classical music. They describe many of their unique and interesting experiences, their work with world-class conductors, their favorite composers and their joy in participating with superb singers on the stage and in famous venues.
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Bjarne Christensen
The author was born in Denmark. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1952, and graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in economics. He is married and has three children. In 1972 he started a commercial insurance brokerage firm in Southern California from which he is retired. Living in a subburb of Houston, Texas, he is now enjoying his lifetime avocation of writing.
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