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witold lutoslawski

This is an incorrect tag for Witold Lutosławski. If this non-artist appears in your charts, do last.fm and yourself a favor. Please fix your tags. But, Mr Last.fm, for us music streamers, how does one transfer the music to the correct name?
is this going to be left as a rhetorical question because i would honestly like to know i dont have a polish laptop and as such cannot type an l with a slash through it

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William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton, OM (March 29, 1902–March 8, 1983) was a British composer and conductor. His style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky, Sibelius and jazz, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic melody and brilliant orchestration. His output includes orchestral and choral works, chamber music and ceremonial music, as well as notable film scores.

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Alarm Will Sound

Alarm Will Sound is a U.S. twenty-member contemporary-music chamber orchestra. Members of the ensemble began playing together while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and have diverse experience in composition, improvisation, jazz, popular styles, early music, and various traditional musics from around the world. Alarm Will Sound's repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced.

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Salomon Orchestra

The Salomon Orchestra is London's leading non-professional orchestra, and has been performing since 1963. The orchestra plays three concerts a season, each with different conductor and a unique programme. In 1990 the orchestra received the Performing Rights Society's Enterprise Award for its continued initiative in promoting the performance of contemporary music. The orchestra has worked with many established artists early in their careers, including conductors Andrew Davis...

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Sally Beamish

Sally Beamish (born 26 August 1956, London) is a British composer of chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music.
Beamish studied the viola at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she received lessons from Anthony Gilbert and Lennox Berkeley. She later studied in Germany with the Italian violinist Bruno Giuranna. As a violist in the Raphael Ensemble, she recorded four discs of string sextets.

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French Group Les Six. He was a Parisian by birth and death, and always preferred the city to the country. His mother, an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life.

Poulenc was a member of Les Six, a group of young French composers, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre, who also had links with Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau.

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