After this opening outburst, dark clouds linger in the guise of a funeral march depressing, inevitable.

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"Think of the last movement of Chopin's 'Funeral March' Sonata, " he said.

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But hold the funeral march for high end audio: for all the lemmings out there, there are those who manage to buck a trend.

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Before police arrived, two black-clad artists played a funeral march but bailiffs were able to clear the building without resistance, the AFP news agency reported.

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Mahler's Fifth Symphony is another work that conquers death, moving from the funeral march of its opening movement to the unstoppable counterpoint of its finale.

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His funeral takes place on 21 March at St John's Church, Keswick, at 1300 GMT.

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Security forces killed two young Shi'ite protesters over the past week and a half, and opened fired at Shi'ites who sought to hold a protest march after attending the funeral of one of them.

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Hundreds of people took part in unofficial searches for Mr Gilson, which were co-ordinated on Facebook, and more than 300 people attended his funeral at Hull's Chanterlands Avenue Cemetery last March.

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On March 17th he had his wish, or most of it: a state funeral for all the poilus at Les Invalides, and then a simple family burial.

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The dispute arises out of a protest march conducted by members of the Westboro Baptist Church outside a church where a funeral was being conducted for Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, a Marine killed in the line of duty in Iraq.

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