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Book review: While the Music Lasts: A memoir of music, grief and joy by Emily MacGregor

Book review: While the Music Lasts: A memoir of music, grief and joy by Emily MacGregor

Thursday, July 24, 2025
MUSIC is “seriously powerful. But it’s not always desirable.” So writes Emily MacGregor, a musicologist, whose guitarist father died suddenly, leaving her in the depths of grief. In this beautiful, moving, and rigorously honest memoir, we are take...