Fletcher Henderson Orchestra

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    Joys as winged dreams fly fast,
    Why should sadness longer last?
    Grief is but a wound to woe;
    Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    As the artist
    extends his world with
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    bass tones of the orchestra ...
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