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The largest production of ‘The Music Man’ ever!

“Seventy-six trombones” is nothing compared to this!

From The New York Times, review by Anthony Tommasini:

“Frank Lloyd Wright might never have anticipated this. But the rotunda of his late masterpiece the Guggenheim Museum — which opened in 1959, six months after his death — is an ideal place to perform one of the most mesmerizing and eclectic musical works ever written: “Orbits” for 80 trombones, soprano and organ by the Montreal-born American composer Henry Brant.
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