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Trisha Brown -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | In January 2000, 84-year-old composer Oleg Lundstrem assumed the podium at a concert in Moscow to direct what was believed to be the world's longest-surviving jazz band. |
 | | Lundstrem's group, formed in 1934 in Harbin, Manchuria, survived a decade in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of World War II and another in Kazan, U.S.S.R., at a time when Soviet policy condemned... |
 | | In June the innocently titled Free to Dancea selective, three-hour documentary chronicling African American influences in modern dancewas telecast nationally in the U.S. on the Public Broadcasting System. |
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