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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
Harrison Birtwistle
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Harrison Birtwistle
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 15
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Sir Harrison Birtwistle
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