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The Secret Song

Ocean Afternoon (Part 2)

"The Secret Song" chronicles the final months of Doug Goodkin’s 45-year career teaching music to children in San Francisco. Goodkin’s time-tested methods are thrown into disarray as the pandemic forces schools into “distance” learning, and a music program that always prioritized learning music through the ear, not the eye, has to find a way to keep the music playing and the learning going.

Ocean Afternoon (Part 2)

Painting with Wilson Bickford Episode 813 | 27m 32s | CC

Wilson can almost hear the waves lapping at the shore as the soft breeze blows through the seagrasses dotting the beach. In part 2, Wilson adds detail to the gentle ocean waves and the sandy beach.

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