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There\u2019s a piece of music which sounds fascinating (or should that be \u201csounds like it will sound fascinating\u201d?). James Macmillan<\/a> has set to music the story of a woman in the 1940s who may possibly have conceived without a male\u2019s involvement. The piece<\/a> is called \u201cParthenogenesis<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Read more about it at Duke Divinity School\u2019s Theology Through The Arts web site<\/a>. I hope to find a way to hear the piece \u2013 there doesn\u2019t seem to be a commercially-available recording of it.<\/p>\n

Drat, just like Ilmari Hannikainen\u2019s piano concerto! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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