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The Foundation Choir of the Pimlico Musical Foundation, which provides free choral education for disadvantaged children in the area, joined the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, to sing evensong last month. Children also took part in an interactive workshop. One parent said that the opportunity was “magical”

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