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Walk the halls at the University of Minnesota School of Music and you're likely to catch a bit of oboe, a brass quintet or even a symphony orchestra.
Then you may hear something you didn't expect — sounds that seem better suited to a sun-drenched island than Ferguson Hall: calypso music on steel drums.
Marilyn Clark Silva says it's impossible for her not to dance or move when playing the pan, or steel drum. Every semester for three years, the teaching assistant and percussionist leads a steel drum class open to anyone, music major or not.
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