Discipline is strict, but classes are livened up with clapping and chanting--"Read, baby, read!"

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Before one encore, the drummer gestured to the audience to up its applause, and fans obliged, turning polite clapping into a roar.

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Despite a few cutaways of the pair sitting together in the audience and Brown standing and clapping following her performance, seeing the two together was not as big a deal as the run up felt like it should be.

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Composer Anna Meredith, meanwhile, is teaming up with the National Youth Orchestra to create HandsFree, a piece using the percussive skill of beatboxing and clapping.

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