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| | Memorial to Adrian Dante, UK, an impresario, organiser, teacher, writer, publisher, composer, arranger and accordionist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Adrian Dante - impresario, organiser, teacher, writer, publisher, composer, arranger, record producer and accordionist - was born in London of Italian parents in 1914, and spent much of his childhood in Italy where he became fascinated by the accordion and immersed in music. |
 | | The immediate post-war period marked the beginning of Dante as an accordion impresario and contest organiser, with the large-scale BAA championships being staged annually at St Pancras Town Hall in London, and also celebrity concerts and concert tours being frequently involving many of the world's greatest accordionists. |
 | | Dante had made a vast amount of music for accordion available to the world through his various activities, and his lifetime contribution to the development of the accordion, especially in Great Britain, should be recognised and respected by present and future generations. |
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