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Menuhin Competition 2021

Watch the world’s finest young violinists in a virtual Menuhin Competition for 2021

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A phone company was tired of its old ringtones. So, Hans Zimmer composed an ‘orchestra’ of sounds.

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The power of ‘Beethoven’s Funeral March’, the musical masterpiece played at Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral

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