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The Donne Foundation has successfully set the Guinness World Record for the Longest Acoustic Music Live-Streamed Concert, with a 26-hour concert of music by women and non-binary composers.

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Performance by musicians from military orchestras in Moscow, Russia

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Sir Simon Rattle conducts cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the London Symphony Orchestra in Trafalgar Square

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Chopin’s Nocturnes help students retain memorised information, according to this study

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