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You never see a lion crucifying another lion. You never see a bear just randomly murdering salmon for anything besides food; bears don’t form armies, invade rivers, tear the heads off male salmon, rape the female salmon, and enslave their salmon children.

“I’m going to give you one note today,” Bechet told his surprised pupil. “See how many ways you can play that note—growl it, smear it, flat it, sharp it, do anything you want to it. That’s how you express your feelings in this music. It’s like talking.”

The renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie, profoundly deaf since age twelve, performs shoeless to allow her feet to feel the vibrations from the floor. The human body, she told The Globe and Mail, is “like a huge ear.”