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This duet by Julia Usher, for Bb Soprano Saxophone and Bb Clarinet, has been written for the ensemble Gemini, and will be premiered at St Botolph's Church, Colchester when Gemini lead the Colchester New Music Day on May 27th, 2009. On the 24th November 1639, in the small Lancashire village of Much Hoole, a nineteen-year-old astronomer set up a wooden telescope and made a series of observations of the Sun. Jeremiah Horrocks had concluded that if Johannes Kepler was correct in his mathematical mo… Continue