Despite the awfulness of what was happening, the backdrop w… - Steve Turner

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Despite the awfulness of what was happening, the backdrop was a scene of beauty: a clear sky, a bright moon, clearly visible stars, flat undisturbed water, and an immense liner blazing with pinholes of light.

Steve Turner

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Steve Turner is a music journalist, biographer and poet, who grew up in Northamptonshire, England.

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[Bandleader Hartley] apparently believed that music could be more powerful that physical force in bringing order to chaos.

They kept it up until the very end. Only the engulfing ocean had power to drown them into silence.

The musicians had played on the deck as the ship went down. They had forfeited their lives for the sake of others. They had played the tunes of hymns to induce a spirit of peace and calm. They were heroic.

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