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Music has inspired and sustained people for millennia. This week’s livestreams focus on music, an activity that Thomas Jefferson declared “the favorite passion of my soul.” Watchour live Q&A with Thomas Jefferson, interpreted by our own Bill Barker, as we discuss Jefferson's love of music and the free and enslaved people who played music for themselves and others at Monticello.