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Organist Julian Lembke, center, changes a pipe of the organ of the John Cage organ project during a 'chord change' at the partially ruined Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. The performance of the "ORGAN/ASLSP," or As Slow As Possible, composition by John Cage began in September 2001 at the church in the eastern town of Halberstadt and is supposed to end in 2640. The last chord change was in 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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Hundreds of fans attended a special kind of musical happening last week at a church in Germany: a chord change in an organ piece that is supposed to last for an entirety of 639 years.

By Kirsten Grieshaber And Markus Schreiber, The Associated Press September 15, 2020
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