Music has been a part of our history and lives for a long time.

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"It is a very, very deep heritage and it has a long history including culture and language and music and food and many, many things, " he says.

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"Wind ensemble is a medium that has a long, long history of patriotic and marching-band music, " Mr. Fairouz said.

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