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Can you imagine a world without music?

No songs on the radio or at parties.

No concerts or musicals on the stage.

Not one musical note anywhere.

How might it feel to live in a world like that?

In today's episode, we'll find out.

I'm Rebecca Shear, and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. Today, our story is called

A World of Music. It's inspired by tales from the Aztec, an indigenous group who lived in what's

now Central Mexico more than 600 years ago. Some really great people came together to bring

you our version of this folk tale, including John Huertas.

Grownups, you may know John from such TV shows as This Is Us on NBC and Castle on ABC.

As a director, he's filmed episodes of NBC's The Irrational, ABC's Tracker, and Amazon Primes, Bosch.

He also directed the short film Too Jacked.

So circle around everyone.

For a world of music.

In ancient times, long, long ago, the earth sounded rather different than it does today.

You could hear the rivers burbling, the waves crashing, the waves crashing, the wind blowing.

But the one thing you couldn't hear was...

Music.

Sky God, creator of the earth and Lord of the Sky God,

flashed his younger brother, Wind God, a frown.

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