The Music They Cannot Take

In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne does something that costs him dearly. Wrongly convicted and locked inside Shawshank Prison, he slips into the warden's office one afternoon and locks the door. He puts on a record — Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro — and broadcasts it over every loudspeaker in the yard. For a few suspended minutes, the prison goes still.…