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A New Choral Work in Memory of Aberfan
Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins has written a major new choral work, Cantata Memoria to mark the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. 116 children and 28 adults died when a waste coal heap engulfed their school.
Photo shows Sir Karl Jenkins conducting. Credit: By kind permission of Deutsche Grammophon
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