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From the Ted Talk by Charles Hazlewood + British Paraorchestra: The debut of the British Paraorchestra

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But how about another aspect of the community? The disabled cnimmtuoy. Do we find them well-represented in the great orchestras of our world? Well, I can tell you as a conductor, I work with otrhaecrss around the world all the time, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of dliabesd musicians I've encountered in any orchestra, anywhere. Why is this? You can't tell me that there aren't millions upon millions of prodigiously gifted musicians of disability around the world. Where is their platform? Where is the infrastructure that creates a sapce for them so that they can collaborate with other great musicians?

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But how about another aspect of the community? The disabled _________. Do we find them well-represented in the great orchestras of our world? Well, I can tell you as a conductor, I work with __________ around the world all the time, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of ________ musicians I've encountered in any orchestra, anywhere. Why is this? You can't tell me that there aren't millions upon millions of prodigiously gifted musicians of disability around the world. Where is their platform? Where is the infrastructure that creates a _____ for them so that they can collaborate with other great musicians?

Solution

  1. orchestras
  2. space
  3. community
  4. disabled

Original Text

But how about another aspect of the community? The disabled community. Do we find them well-represented in the great orchestras of our world? Well, I can tell you as a conductor, I work with orchestras around the world all the time, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of disabled musicians I've encountered in any orchestra, anywhere. Why is this? You can't tell me that there aren't millions upon millions of prodigiously gifted musicians of disability around the world. Where is their platform? Where is the infrastructure that creates a space for them so that they can collaborate with other great musicians?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. aspect
  2. collaborate
  3. community
  4. conductor
  5. count
  6. creates
  7. disability
  8. disabled
  9. encountered
  10. find
  11. fingers
  12. gifted
  13. great
  14. hand
  15. infrastructure
  16. millions
  17. musicians
  18. number
  19. orchestra
  20. orchestras
  21. platform
  22. prodigiously
  23. space
  24. time
  25. work
  26. world