1.   Handcrafted of green leather with embellishments of brass, the lovely little instrument makes beautiful music.

2.   There was beautiful music playing and no partition.

3.   There was a deathly hush, no sound but the beautiful music rising up and swirling above them to the glittering pointed icicles in the illuminated cavernous roof.

4.   And how could a censor interrupt such beautiful music?

5.   Beautiful music is beautiful music, and people will not stop composing it because a computer can, any more than chess players are going to stop playing chess.

6.   Better to play with a stranger whose name means love, and you may make beautiful music together.

7.   But even a small group can produce some beautiful music.

8.   But just as often, distance is the best thing between the public and the star who hits home runs or makes beautiful music.

9.   Equal parts Billie Holiday and Buena Vista Social Club, Ms. Evora of Cape Verde makes nondenominationally beautiful music.

10.   For David Hall, the president of The Nashville Network, beautiful music comes from more places than the stage of the Grand Ole Opry or a midtown honky-tonk.