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Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Wagner, Cosima and Richard
Cosima Wagner
German art director
Elizabeth Penn Sprague Coolidge
American philanthropist

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Aerial view as people move around the site at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 26 2008 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
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