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Dr. Wolfgang Pike would love nothing more than to finish the requiem he's composing for his late wife, but the ending seems as hopeless as the patients dying a hundred yards away at the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis sanatorium. If he can't ease his own pain with music, he tries to ease theirs-but his boss thinks music is a waste, and in 1920s Louisville, the specter of racial tensions looms over everything. When a retired concert pianist arrives, Wolfgang is thrust into an orchestra of the most extraordinary kind that emerges to change everything.
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Narrator Nick Mondelli masterfully spins a web of empathy and heartbreak in this novel set in Waverly Hills, a historic tuberculosis hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, in the Prohibition era of the 1920s. Dr. Wolfgang Pike believes in the healing power of music. While composing a requiem for his late wife, he creates an orchestra for the patients and medical staff. But because it has African Americ
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