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TIL in 1969, top composer Louis Andriessen and others disrupted a Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra concert with nutcrackers and bicycle horns, giving leaflets about the lack of Dutch new music in the orchestra's programming. They did a week in jail but sparked some Dutch music scene change.

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