London music fest gambles on little-known Nancarrow

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LONDON (Reuters) - Avant garde rock star Frank Zappa said his music sounded like "bionic ragtime", the U.S. government considered him an unwelcome communist and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's soldiers wanted to kill him. So what else was Conlon Nancarrow, a native of Texarkana, Arkansas, to do but move to Mexico, give up his U.S. ...

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