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repertoire, OD sings music of all genres in many different languages and since the start in 1853 has been widely acknowledged for its ambition to continuously push the envelope of what a male-voice choir can and should do.
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students (ten singers, a pianist and a spectator) and the conductor Oscar Arpi in a local
Banquet Hall, where they passed the time singing together. One of the songs that was performed was
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