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21.6.08

Sampling the Washington Early Music Festival

by Charles T. Downey | Saturday, June 21, 2008

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Treble and More Treble for La Ménéstrandise
Washington Post, June 18, 2008

La Ménéstrandise
Washington Early Music Festival
Christ Church, Capitol Hill

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