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Defiant Acts of Joy

When a friend hit me up with a “great opportunity”, my answer was an immediate no. Whatever crumbs of free time in my possession were now taken up with responding to the Trump administration’s attacks on nearly every aspect of society that I hold dear. There were elected officials to harangue, rallies to attend, letters to write, elections to canvass for. There were phone-banks to staff, petitions to circulate, campaigns to support, articles to write. “But it’s Beethoven’s Ninth,” my friend beseeched, helpfully attaching 25 dense pages of music to the email. Rehearsal was in three days. More