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...class bands were being set up all over Britain. The assumption was that this was just another works band, like any other. But then, in 1986, the curator of the castle phoned Trevor Herbert at the Open University and asked him to come and look at some musical items he'd found in an attic. They included a most unusual collection of brass instruments. On the rim of the bells...

...became the first woman to win France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome (which women had only been allowed to enter since 1903), in 1913 for her cantata Faust et Hélène. Despite her brief career, Lilian Boulanger also composed dozens of compositions, including piano works, songs, and several large-scale works for choir and orchestra....