Wilson, who opened and closed the show wearing Iron Man-style armour, won breakthrough performance and shared best musical moment for her role in college musical Pitch Perfect.

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I've sat in Studio 1A with a lot of amazing musicians, but it's not often that you feel like you're witness to a one-of-a-kind musical moment.

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But now American bands such as Liturgy, Krallice, Absu, Leviathan, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Inquisition have left a fair amount of the pageantry behind not to mention the violence and helped to create a community, as well as a musical moment that is rife with activity.

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And what's missing from, I think, almost all these movies is that wonderful moment in the movie musical where everything was heightened just before they burst into song.

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Not so at the recent (first) International Percussion Biennale in Conakry, Guinea, where drummers from around the world gloried in the moment when their solos were the main event, not musical filler.

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