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We heard the full range of "le monde creole" that night early jazz, a classical danza from Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

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Her entire fall collection was inspired, she said, by a piece of classical music that she specifically commissioned for the show, by the English composer Tom Hodge.

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