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John Ellis
Feb 19, 2020
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1​. She has played to countless audiences in the 43 years since first picking up a violin aged ten, but nothing could prepare Dagmar Turner for the most intimate performance of her life. The musician has become the first person in Britain to have a brain tumor removed while she was awake, sitting up and playing the violin. As she played George Gershwin’…

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