Imagine that an alien species landed on Earth and, through their mere presence, those aliens caused our art to vanish, our music to homogenize, and our technological know-how to disappear.

There is not a culture on Earth that does not have it, and our brains are wired to apprehend and be moved by its magic.

Then she was invited to give a series of concerts in Sweden. The musician Kosti Vehanen played the piano at Marian's concerts.