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Nothing to get cross over

lassical crossover. A term that makes purists recoil, that defines a genre-less genre that has classical musical culture up in arms even while it has non-specialist charts in its thrall. Yet crossover’s essential philosophy isn’t as separate from classical ideology as purists might like to think, and

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