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Like songs, the best graphs tell stories. Here are my 10 favourites from 2021

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Like songs, the best graphs tell stories. Here are my 10 favourites from 2021sheetmusicdirect

“One of the first things you have to decide on with a musical is why should there be songs.”

The person speaking is Stephen Sondheim, the writer of some of the best songs for musicals in the 20th century, who died in November aged 91.

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