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On 22 June 2015, which would have been van der Linden's 100th birthday, the
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In 1945, he was asked by Dutch authorities who had arrived back from their exile in London to form an orchestra for light music. Picking musician known to him from all over the
Netherlands, he thus managed to create the
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