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The International Music Foundation presents a concert in memory of it’s founder Al Booth featuring violinist Ming Huan and pianist Winston Choi known as XuDuo Diorama.
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One of the most important and complete collections of English sacred music, the Old Hall Manuscript, was compiled between 1415-1421. The volume contains two mass movements – Gloria and Sanctus – written […] -
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Internationally acclaimed Icelandic pop star Björk has given the world music that cannot be easily described. Her music has been influenced by a range of styles from Thai pop to the atonal […]
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Each of J.S. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos is scored for a completely different group of instruments. One of them features a famous high trumpet part, one has French horns, another, a pair of recorders, while another features just lower strings. Which Bach Brandenburg has a very prominent solo harpsichord part? 
