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Jabez Hogsbarrow, the London-based contemporary music specialist, gourmet chef and sewage consultant, boasts an encyclopaedic knowledge of the works of living British female composers, and also plays the dumb spinet and the alphorn. He saw the light of day on the first day of the fourth month of 1989.
Jabez Hogsbarrow reports from the London International Contemporary Composers' Conference