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The latter makes full use of the increased expressive spectrum. Elsewhere, Jean-Michel Damase's "Sonate" shifts from the brooding opening to brasher terrain, while the jazzier manner of Jean-Michel Defaye's "ALPHA" ably reflects his tutoring by Nadia Boulanger.
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