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• Series: Score
• Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen
• Format: Softcover
• Composer: Maja S. K. Ratkje
• Price: 32.00 (US)

William Butler Yeats once wrote a poem titled To a Friend Whose Work has Come to Nothing (1931). In 1960, the American poet Anne Sexton wrote the following poem, as a part of her first published work, Bedlam and Part Way Back. I see it as an encouraging advice to reach the sun. If you never tried, you'll never know. I thought it fitted very well to the trombone concerto and the soloist's determined will to make the music fly.

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