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Tomas Tranströmer Interview: "The Music Says Freedom Exists"

"I play Haydn after a black day / and feel a simple warmth in my hands." In this video featuring Tomas Tranströmer's poem "Allegro," the Swedish poet and Nobel laureate plays piano in his home in Stockholm. Tranströmer passed away on March 26 at the age of eighty-three.

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Tomas Tranströmer
Nobel laureate

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