Two books dive into the history of minimalist music and the origins of the saxophone
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Introduction
Two recent books about world-changing moments in the history of music. William Robin and Kerry O'Brien are a pair of musicologists who've written on minimalism. In a minute we'll hear from a married couple whose latest kid's picture book tells the fascinating story of the creation of the saxophone.
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