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'It's not a very good melody'

The conductor and composer Ivan Fischer feels the song Happy Birthday has "a number of weaknesses, musically speaking" and needs to be improved. So he has tried to do just that.

(Picture: Ivan Fischer. Credit: Marco Borggreve)

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