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Composer George Benjamin: Don’t label me, I’m British

Reported by Arab News on Thursday, 10 May 2012 (on May 10, 2012)
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LONDON: Rats “stream like hot metal, to the rim of the world” and children, lured by the music of a Pied Piper-like exterminator, disappear into a hillside in British composer George Benjamin’s eerie 2006 mini-opera “Into the Little Hill.”

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