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Tune in Today: Luigi Denza’s ‘Funiculi, Funicula’
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From a volcano’s devastation to a song’s enduring fame, how a lost railway inspired Italy’s most infectious melody.
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Hilldale College’s free, online course features lessons on the pivotal Romantic era, along with select American composers.
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