Nicole Dieker
1 min readApr 7, 2017

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So I also got super into Shakespeare as a teen and went and bought a cassette of Mendelssohn’s Midsummer overture and incidentals — a cheapo Naxos cassette at Sam Goody — and on the B side they put Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) and Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and something else I can’t remember… but the point is that Teen Nicole dutifully listened to the Midsummer stuff and then rewound and replayed Hebrides like a billion times, because it was the one that sounded new agey and cinematic (to her Enya and Titanic-soundtrack obsessed ears — and it’s worth mentioning that “Ebudae,” as in the Enya track, literally means the Hebrides).

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Nicole Dieker
Nicole Dieker

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