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Achievement The former composer-in-residence for S.F.’s Chanticleer and Women’s Philharmonic will have the world premiere of her “Olympic Fire” at London’s Proms Festival in Royal Albert Hall for today’s opening of the Beijing Olympics. The concert can be heard at www.bbc.co.uk/proms.

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