Thomas Wolfe famously said that you can’t go home again, but that rule never applied to Thomas Marchesiello, the director of music and liturgy at St. Ephrem’s Roman Catholic Church in Dyker Heights.

He has spent his entire life in Brooklyn and will be retiring on May 15, after having served as music director for 45 years…

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