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You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
Fred Frith
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Fred Frith
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 17
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Violinist
Heathfield
East Sussex
Jeremy Webster Fred Frith
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