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Stardust and Coaldust: The melancholy magnificence of Peter Skellern

Tim Footman, Tangents, 2001

FOR VARIOUS REASONS I've been thinking about brass bands lately. Maybe it's a spin-off from my (by now doubtless wearying) fanboy crush on Hiroo Nakazaki's euphonium work with Maher Shalal Hash Baz.

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