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Ring cycle: how I joined in the bicycle-bell orchestra
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b22721f3-3770-49dc-a30a-8fcb236b7d4f/1E4E72D5-BC1E-4E16-8AB2-10B693342633/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra"><H1>Ring cycle: how I joined in the bicycle-bell orchestra</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">It's not quite the Albert Hall, but Spitalfields Market was ringing with music this morning as cyclists teamed up to perform Kagel's symphony for bicycles</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra"><LI class="byline"> <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{Helen Pidd}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/helenpidd">Helen Pidd</A> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra"><LI class="publication"> <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</A>, Thursday 5 March 2009 15.57 GMT </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra"><P><BR />I got up at the crack of dawn this morning to pedal down to Spitalfields Market in east <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/london">London</A> to make my symphonic debut. I haven't done anything more musical than karaoke since I gave up honking on my oboe 12 years ago, but I decided it was about time I got back into it. Plus I was told musical talent was superfluous to today's performance: as long as I could ride a bike and had a bell that dinged, I was in.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra"><P>Eine Brise (A Breeze) is a 90-second composition by the eccentric Argentinian composer <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2008/sep/19/maurico.kagel.tribute">Mauricio Kagel</A>, who died aged 76 last autumn. Kagel described the work as a "fleeting action for 111 cyclists: a musically enriched sport event in the open".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/bicycle-bell-orchestra">It was fun to be part of something so odd</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1E4E72D5-BC1E-4E16-8AB2-10B693342633/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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