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Marvellous Aphorisms: Ross Parfitt reflects on private messages in the early work of Gavin Bryars

“First it was like Harpo Marx”; “The Harp that Once Through Tara’s Halls”; “’The Sybil with raving mouth utters solemn unadorned unlovely words’”. These phrases and titles are found in Bryars’ pieces from the late 1960’s/early 1970’s.

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