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George Benjamin: a life in music

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Thursday, 10 May 2012 (on May 10, 2012)

'For a huge number of people, contemporary classical music is just closed. It's a very peripheral activity in our society, I fear'

When I first met George Benjamin in 1986, he was a recovering child..

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