Elmahmoudi was born in Egypt and raised in the United States, and he says__________________________by a papyrus called The Dream Book, which was used to decipher dreams in ancient Egypt.

"I've always been drawn to these grand stories, these epic stories, and wanted to write something that used mythology, and this story just connected with me __________________________." Helen Brown does research on the HIV virus at the University of California, Los Angeles. For the past 12 years, she has played violin in the Doctors Symphony in her spare time.

"It's such a diverse group of people, but we're just brought together by that singular love of music, and we just do it for the sheer enjoyment of it. And I think it's great to be among people __________________________, different ethnicities, you know, all kinds of diversity, but they just love music."

(1)the musical composition was inspired
(2)because it immediately sounded musical
(3)who might be different ages, different backgrounds